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| Thread ID: 56831 | 2005-04-16 07:26:00 | hard drive problem | phylip (1886) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 345642 | 2005-04-16 08:13:00 | yes ill reformat but how do i do that when i cant boot to a floppy drive as it does not have one to boot to dos any help once again please sorry to be such a pain |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 345643 | 2005-04-16 08:14:00 | Is your Windows Xp CD an OEM Cd (ie. it came with the computer)? If it is you can boot from that. |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 345644 | 2005-04-16 08:15:00 | No point reformatting unless you have a install CD with SP1 (or SP2) slipped streamed onto it, or you will just be right back where you are now. You need to have XP with SP1/SP1 already incorporated when installing for the whole drive to be detected. If you have a non-destructive partitioner such as PartitionMagic then you can now stretch out your XP partition to its full size, otherwise just do what has been suggested and now create a partition and format the unallocated space using the Disk Management tool. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 345645 | 2005-04-16 08:18:00 | As long as it is a recent(post 2001-2) OEM cd it will have SP1 (or SP2) slipstreamed onto it. | Dannz (1668) | ||
| 345646 | 2005-04-16 08:20:00 | Go to disk management as stated in the previous post, and highlight the unallocated 104 GB. Then format it in NTFS. You'll have 2 partitions then. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 345647 | 2005-04-16 08:30:00 | It sounds like you need to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) support. Have a look at this page (homepage.ntlworld.com) under "What if I have a hard drive which is greater than 137 GB?" | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 345648 | 2005-04-16 14:47:00 | thanks guys and gals for all your help i ended up merging the two drives and now his computer is going sweet im going to have to charge him for it though | phylip (1886) | ||
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