[Linux-Anyway] Re: Windblows total screw up
- From: John Richard Smith <bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:12:05 +0100
Meph Istopheles wrote:
> John,
>
>>> I've a similar issue with a Maxtor 80GB drive, which, right now, is only
>>> working as a 40GB drive. I'd intended using it in my Windows box & first
>>> installed XP Pro on it. It came up
>>>as a 40GB drive in spite of the bios reporting just over 80GB.
>>>
>
I think I have fixed this "Two disks on one drive" problem that came
about by selecting "Cap Limit" on the jumpers of this 120gig HD. To
remind everyone, this is what PM8 saw ,
Disk1 117Gigs
Disk2 62MB
and Powermax LLF failed to eliminate it.
but this did,
Ran W2000 CD1 to Console and ran FIXMBR
(that eliminated the second disk but left PM8 unable to do anything
other than display the fact that the second disk had gone, for some
reason it could do nothing, not even delete)
Ran MD10.0 CD1 to Diskdrake and deleted every partition on it.
I allowed diskdrake to write the non partition table to disk,
and then crashed out of it.
Ran PM8 to create a single PRIMARY dos partition in NTFS and format it
form end to end
I then removed that partition completely.
Ran Powermax V4.09 to do a "quick LLF" to 300 MB at the beginning and
100MB at the end.
Ran Test drive, all criteria passed the tests.
Ran PM8 to create a new NTFS partition to receive W2000.
That seems to work. I think the essence of the matter is really using
W2K's CD1 to FIXMBR and that somehow reached into the bit of the MBR the
LLF failed to reach, and diskdrake was merely the means to clear our the
old logical partitioning etc. I did the powermax quick LLF just to make
certain nothing then remained to prevent a clean setup.
Moral of the story don't use "Cap limit" jumper setting unless you
really have to.
I think I have found out how to install W2000 as well.
sorten out what was causing the install to fail.
More on than later.
John
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