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Thread ID: 60832	2005-08-14 10:18:00	After reformat - HD not detected	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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380948	2005-08-15 11:54:00	You could try this www.seagate.com Since its a seagate hdd. See what it says. Umm strange the ram went down in speed. Try setting the BIOS to the default settings and reconfigure it. Whats the brand/model of the mobo anyway??	Speedy Gonzales (78)
380949	2005-08-16 02:19:00	Just how did you reformat the disk? The way I read this it might be a reformat gone bad. Before you buy a new disk, try to boot from a w98 floppy and fdisk the drive. If that fails the drive will no longer be of any use to you (or your friend) no matter what any diagnostic tool say.	antonia1 (7850)
380950	2005-08-16 21:03:00	Speedy, I downloaded the Seagate tool specific to my friend's HD. Doing a Quick Test the result was BAD. Then we did a full test and it found about a dozen bad sectors and repaired them, or so it seemed. We ran the full test again and bad sectors were still there - how many I don't know, did not count. I advised my friend to run the test a few more times with the option to fix the bad parts, but unless the HD did not test 'bad', he had better get a new HD. Via Win XP Disk Management, as per your instructions above, the HD was deemed to be "Healthy". I'll go on to the reformat issue below. Again, thanks much for your assistance. You're making good karma ;-)	Strommer (42)
380951	2005-08-16 21:09:00	Just how did you reformat the disk? The way I read this it might be a reformat gone bad. Before you buy a new disk, try to boot from a w98 floppy and fdisk the drive. If that fails the drive will no longer be of any use to you (or your friend) no matter what any diagnostic tool say. Actually, I reformatted twice before installing WinXP. First was by using the commands in .... cannot recall exactly how I got there.... the 'bootcfg' place where if you enter HELP a whole list of commands appear. I think I have it written down, just how I did the first format, but the paper is over at my friend's house. Anyway, after formatting the entire HD, I booted from Win XP CD and opted to Install Windows. There was an option for partitioning, so I made two partitions, but the only way I could install Windows was to reformat the partition where WinXP was going to reside. The other partition is not formatted yet. How do I format this? If I boot from the WinXP CD and opt to install Windows (and format the partition first), I think it will simply install Windows so we have two sets of Windows on the one HD. So I think I have to go to the place where I was doing 'bootcfg'. Can anyone help here? Thanks.	Strommer (42)
380952	2005-08-17 02:37:00	Speedy, the motherboard is: Intel 845 DDR 333 / AGP / AUD / 6PCI / LAN (What does the AUD stand for?). Antonia, to format the first time, I went into the Recovery Console and typed "map", then "format C: /fs:ntfs" But I am still wondering how to format the partition without Windows on it...via Recovery Console or...???	Strommer (42)
380953	2005-08-17 02:56:00	AUD = Audio? You can format thru the xp cd (- after it gets to the setup screen, but u can't since the hdd is screwed) . I would replace the hdd, before u go further / do anything else . Or else you'll spend all year, trying to fix something, that can't be fixed . Dunno bout the recovery console . I've never had to use it .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
380954	2005-08-17 03:11:00	Thanks Speedy. Actually the PC works fine. WinXP boots up and shuts down quickly and programs run fine. So there is no *apparent* indication that anything is wrong with the HD. I managed to revisit the Recovery Console and found an option of which partition to format, chose it, and entered "map" etc. as stated in my last post. If there is another way to format using the WinXP CD, I'd be interested in knowing. Guess I was nervous yesterday and blanked out, because it is quite easy to do as I see today. My friend knows he needs a new HD, unless we get a clean bill of health from the Seagate analysis tool.	Strommer (42)
380955	2005-08-17 06:15:00	If there is another way to format using the WinXP CD, I'd be interested in knowing . Guess I was nervous yesterday and blanked out, because it is quite easy to do as I see today . I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you are wanting but if you have an unformatted partition that you want to format then you can do it via Disk Management if you now have Windows installed . Go to Start > Run and type in DISKMGMT . MSC then right click the partition you want formatted and choose Format .	FoxyMX (5)
380956	2005-08-17 20:09:00	I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you are wanting but if you have an unformatted partition that you want to format then you can do it via Disk Management if you now have Windows installed . Go to Start > Run and type in DISKMGMT . MSC then right click the partition you want formatted and choose Format . Thanks Foxy . I just wanted to format the unformatted partition, but being unformatted, Windows cannot "see it", i . e . from My Computer it only showed the formatted partition (where WinXP sits) . So, I don't know if Disk Management would have shown the unformatted partitition . In any case, as stated in my last post, I did manage to format via Recovery Console - this appears before Windows boots up and so it can "see" both partitions, not just the one with Windows . Most likely my friend will have to get a new HD . I am pushing him to also get a DVD reader-writer and he finally finally has learned the necessity of backing up his data . Why are some people so reluctant, so closed off and thick about this topic, of not backing up anything that will be lost if the HD goes kaput? I have been telling him for two years now and he never backed a thing . Last month his wife needed a single MSWord document to take to print on a laser printer at her workplace . . . . he could not find a floppy so he was going to put the 40 kb doc on a CD-R . . . . I took over and did put the doc on the CD along with all data that I could find (while he rushed out for a meeting) . Guess what . . . . he cannot find that backup CD anywhere, much to his wife's amusement . :p	Strommer (42)
380957	2005-08-17 22:23:00	Disk Management would have shown an empty space. You would need to create a partition/s then format it/them before Windows would "see" it/them. Until that was done there would just be an empty space shown. Maybe that might be useful info for you for next time. ;) :p	FoxyMX (5)
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