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| Thread ID: 110230 | 2010-06-08 21:47:00 | About Seagate Barracuda | namboothiri (14469) | Press F1 |
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| 1108225 | 2010-06-08 21:47:00 | Hi, A new 1.5TB 7200.11 32MB SATA HD internal was partitioned (3 NTFS) initially in GParted but Vista64 failed to identify the disk. When re-done in diskmgmt.msc, it did but left the last partition as RAW and unconditionally failed to format. Tried Paragon PManager (free Home edn) and EASUS PManager Professional (paid edn) but, the situation was the same. In between 2 internal HDs, there are 6 partitions and 4 in the 2 external HDs. Are there any (unwritten) limit to the number, size, partitions etc of HDs for an OS to handle or is this just a one of a kind. To make things worse, the OS suddenly began to identify the full external 1TB Seagate HD as RAW in its diskm utility. This is where I've saved all the recovered files from the corrupted WD external HD. So I pulled that out and connected to the Notebook where the disk and all the files are safe and intact. Is it time to upgrade the PC and look for a new Mobo leaving ASUS? |
namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1108226 | 2010-06-08 22:11:00 | Using a standard PC/DOS partition table, the only limit you're likely to run into is 'no more than 4 primary partitions per disk'. Every other limit is high enough that you shouldn't need to worry about it. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1108227 | 2010-06-10 04:37:00 | Thanks Erayd. I spoke to the supplier. They have identified the problem and suggested to change the brand to WD. I agreed. So, it seems, all are going to be OK. Sorry for being a bit late! | namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1108228 | 2010-06-10 20:01:00 | Yeah, there is a practical limit to the total number of drives and partitions. They all need to be assigned a letter, from C: to Z:, meaning you are limited to 24 partitions in total. Given that your optical drive will eat up one, and USB devices (MP3 players, Memory sticks etc will also eat up a letter each, then you can certainly risk hitting a practical limitation. Try breaking a drive into partitions of no more than 2GB for an old Windows OS and you'll certainly strike issues! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1108229 | 2010-06-10 22:52:00 | Thanks Paul. The limit to 4 max was known however, the confusion existed around the System failing to identify the disk and creating more confusions! Lucky, this has now been sorted not by fixing but just by avoiding to tread into the arena of the System! Let it rule! Also it seems, once we assign an Alphabet to a partiton or dirve, the System changes it when we add another one (external or internal) to the PC. So does this mean that the System is now ready to redo the allocation? It sounds like Yes. May be, I need to so some more fact finding. |
namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1108230 | 2010-06-11 04:24:00 | They all need to be assigned a letter, from C: to Z:, meaning you are limited to 24 partitions in total.This is incorrect - modern Windows systems (definitely from XP onwards, not sure about earlier) can also mount a partition on a folder, you don't need to assign it a driver letter in order to use it. | Erayd (23) | ||
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