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Thread ID: 35031 2003-06-30 11:50:00 New hdd and Power Supply! BIIG problem - Help?!! PoWa (203) Press F1
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156468 2003-06-30 11:50:00 Hi I just installed my new Power Supply (Enermax 350W EG365P-VE) and new 120Gb Hard drive (Seagate 7200.7 ST3120026A 8mb cache).

Ok they seem to be installed securely and spinning ok etc. I made the new drive master, and the old 20gb one slave.

I tested first, as slave and it worked ok. One thing though - the drive only showed up as having a max of 111Gb. Where is the other 9Gb I payed for?!

I partitioned the drive with Partition Magic in this order:

1) Primary NTFS 4gig Partition for Windows.
2) Primary NTFS 2Gb partition for windows swap file
3) Primary NTFS 25Gb partition for programs etc.
4) Primary NTFS 80Gb partition for random stuff

Note: I used partion magic to make the windows xp version of ntfs.

I then proceeded with a fresh XP Pro installation. That went fine and I got into windows ok. I then used Atomic Xp to fix up the annoying windows defaults, and rebooted.

Now when I tried to run a program, ie display driver installer or internet security installer it gets some way through, then the system immediately reboots! Now everytime I boot up again I get this weird blue screen error message:

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A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Ntfs.sys

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

~~~~~ bla ~~~bla~~~~ reboot computer now.

Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. Go into safemode if you need to and remove components.

Techinical information:

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xF7ED2DFAC, 0x00000001, 0xF7587266, 0X00000000)

*** Ntfs.sys - Address F7587266 base at F7583000, Datestamp 3b7dc5d0 .
---------------------------------------------------

Umm ok HELP!
I deleted the whole disk and did the same stuff again. And the exact same thing happened.
Someone help me fix this please - maybe tonight If possible.

I will be on chatF1 so You can help me there :) 		PoWa (203)
156469 2003-06-30 11:59:00 Hi Powa

One thing stood out for me in your post, and although I don't know enough about partioning...


> I tested first, as slave and it worked ok. One thing
> though - the drive only showed up as having a max of
> 111Gb. Where is the other 9Gb I payed for?!
>
> I partitioned the drive with Partition Magic in this
> order:
>
> 1) Primary NTFS 4gig Partition for Windows.
> 2) Primary NTFS 2Gb partition for windows swap file
> 3) Primary NTFS 25Gb partition for programs etc.
> 4) Primary NTFS 80Gb partition for random stuff

that adds up to 111GB, maybe you need to make an additional 9GB partition?

J
:D 		Jester (13)
156470 2003-06-30 12:02:00 No thats the maximum :) No more unused diskspace left :| PoWa (203)
156471 2003-06-30 12:04:00 > I tested first, as slave and it worked ok. One thing
> though - the drive only showed up as having a max of
> 111Gb. Where is the other 9Gb I payed for?!

Thats normal. The hdd makers like to measure sizes differently to everybody else, so the actual size is slightly smaller.

Can't help with the rest, but at least it sounds like the PSU installation went OK. 		bmason (508)
156472 2003-06-30 12:07:00 Yes the PSU went ok. Well I sorta have a few questions on that too. Will revive other thread to not get off topic :) PoWa (203)
156473 2003-06-30 12:10:00 OK, I can suggest one thing.

Retry with a simpler partition setup. Preferably one big one (just as a test). Or just two (programmes & data).

Also how full is the windows partition. Isn't XP fairly bloated with animated dogs etc.


I don't really see the point in having a seperate swap partition in windows, since it is still stored as a file. 		bmason (508)
156474 2003-06-30 12:34:00 Ok I might try that.

Could it have something to do with me creating 4 primary partitions? I did this because when you create a logical one with partition magic, it makes a box around it called an extended partiton or something. This makes everything look really complicated?

4gig for xp is usually plenty. I might try 5 and see how it goes. 		PoWa (203)
156475 2003-06-30 18:57:00 Ok I've managed to fix the problem. Cheers to whoever suggested let Windows make the partitions :D

I don't think Windows liked the partitions Partition Magic 8 made. I deleted everything and started again. This time letting XP make the windows partition. Everything worked fine. Then I decided to make some more partitions with Partition Magic. And sure enough windows didn't like them either (I was getting ntfs errors in the system event logs). So I deleted them and let windows disk management make the partitions. -No more errors!!

I mean somehow that doesn't add up. PMagic is supposed to be the supreme disk management util. And I've never had these problems with it before?? Maybe cos I let it make NTFS vs 3.1 partitions (winxp version)

The only other thing I did was disabled video BIOS shadow (what is this), and enabled S.M.A.R.T in the bios. (whats this)? // The microsoft site told me to do it.


Anyway people do you think you could help me out with another few problems:

1
With this new hard drive added, all my drive letters are mucked up. I know you can fix them in windows disk management, but I can't change the H: drive back to C: drive though. The H drive is the one that the OS is installed on, and I get an error saying something like "Cannot change drive letter, when that is the system drive".

Is there some dos command that will do it? Etc Etc :)


2
I'm getting this weird error in the system event log manager, how can I fix it??

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DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service ImapiService with arguments "-Service" in order to run the server:
{520CCA63-51A5-11D3-9144-00104BA11C5E}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at go.microsoft.com
--------------------

Thanks! 		PoWa (203)
156476 2003-06-30 19:07:00 Problem 3

When installing programs all the time it becomes a pain in the neck when windows always defaults back to C:\Program Files\*******

How can I change it so whenever an installer is run, it immediately points to D:\Programs\***** instead of C:\Program Files\******

Oh and same for unziping to a temporary directory. I want it so it points to E:\Temp\**** instead of C:\Windows\Temp\***\**** (where I will never find it).


Registry hacks? Other methods? ? Cheers :) 		PoWa (203)
156477 2003-07-01 01:58:00 > I mean somehow that doesn't add up. PMagic is
> supposed to be the supreme disk management util. And
> I've never had these problems with it before?? Maybe
> cos I let it make NTFS vs 3.1 partitions (winxp
> version)

Check the layout, did windows put the extras in an extended partition?

> The only other thing I did was disabled video BIOS
> shadow (what is this), and enabled S.M.A.R.T in the
> bios. (whats this)? // The microsoft site told me to
> do it.

Video bios shadow hasn't been useful since the days of a 386. Generally it won't make any difference, but leaving it of is safer.

SMART is a feature of newer harddrives, it monitors the HDD so it can warn you when its going to fail.

> Anyway people do you think you could help me out with
> another few problems:
>
> 1
> With this new hard drive added, all my drive letters
> are mucked up. I know you can fix them in windows
> disk management, but I can't change the H: drive back
> to C: drive though. The H drive is the one that the
> OS is installed on, and I get an error saying
> something like "Cannot change drive letter, when that
> is the system drive".

I think its a limitation of windows. Is there another drive set as primary master? 		bmason (508)
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