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| Thread ID: 30600 | 2003-02-25 03:45:00 | Windows XP woes | Dylan (800) | Press F1 |
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| 123709 | 2003-02-26 06:29:00 | You are obviously don't know what you are doing. Stick to Windows ME for the time being. | BIFF (1) | ||
| 123710 | 2003-02-26 08:34:00 | Some harddrives do not seem to like XP I have asked many people and been to many messageboards and they all say the same. I have experienced it with a Fujitsu harddrive and a friend with a late model Segate harddrive. We took this problem to one of our tutors and he told us that XP wrote into the 0 sector where the file allocation information is stored. This in turn has the effect of making file partitions fail. In the case of my Fujitsu drive I had to resort to the use of a Hex editor to clear my drive. If you install XP and it runs fine, leave it alone and just lean out some of the processes it will run fairly fast. |
kiwiwiseman (3241) | ||
| 123711 | 2003-02-26 09:11:00 | That's true but corporate licensing is different so I am not too sure but it would have been better not to have mentioned it at all. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 123712 | 2003-09-09 11:19:00 | Hi, I have come accross the problem of xp not recognising more than 32gig of a seagate 120gig drive. Win98 has no problems in seeing a 26 and 94 fat32 formatted partition but xp thinks that it is only 32gig unformatted. Nothing seems to fix it. Do you have anymore info on this? Cheers Andrew |
drew3 (3242) | ||
| 123713 | 2003-09-09 12:38:00 | Hi Andrew, Its been a while now, but I remember seeing that MS have bought out a fix for that. Might be worthwhile searching MS Knowledge base. Cheers. |
*Sparky* (311) | ||
| 123714 | 2003-09-09 13:15:00 | Drew3, try updating your BIOS if the MS patch doesn't fix it. Be careful though! I remember my first experience with XP Home 2years ago. I had ME at that stage and just wanted to upgrade to XP. Being half asleep at the time I thought, *mmm must have to reboot the computer for the installer to work*. So I went through the install process and thought it was actually upgrading my current filesystem to NTFS - but little did I know it was actually formatting the whole hard drive. Argh - goodbye 5years of work. So the moral of the story is: Don't install XP if you haven't had any sleep in 3 days. Anyway, now on XP Pro, no problems at all. I leave the computer going 24/7, and hardly ever reboot. Let me check the windows uptime. Ah yes 2days, 12hrs. Whats the uptime on WinME? - 20mins? ;) My Win2k box at Tec has been running 2weeks at Tec without a reboot. Not bad for windows. |
PoWa. (3243) | ||
| 123715 | 2003-09-10 13:47:00 | I had the same problem with a drive, would not delete, format & gave partition magic a fit :) 1] Down load a 900kb program called "Power Max" from the Maxtor-Quantum web site. This fills the disk with zeros, effectively wiping out the previous format. You will now find it formats OK in partition magic. If you have a problem with partition magic use the switch "/ipe" 2] Do not install XP over ME. XP is not a Dos based program & will be corrupted by ME. 3] Run "Anti Spy" (PC World CD) on XP, removes all the annoying nags & rubbish. Keep ME on another partition for progs which are anti XP. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 123716 | 2003-09-10 18:41:00 | How were you trying to remove XP? All you have to do is insert the disk. Hit "R" when it's booting and enter the repair console. You will then be able to use a lot of dos-like commands to delete XP and reformat to whatever you want. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 123717 | 2003-09-14 08:53:00 | The drive in question had Windows 95 on it & the remains of a drive manager on it which effectively prevenyed any alterations being made by formating or deleting. Not even Fdisk would do it. " Power Max" fixed it. There could well be something on the disk which XP is allergic to. I had a similar problem with a Hewlett Packard which was riddled with virae & HP garbage.. "Power Max" fixed it. |
Mzee (158) | ||
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