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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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| 380978 | 2005-08-19 03:47:00 | Once again I say SPEEDY you are - thanks for the quick reply. Will do and report back here. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 380979 | 2005-08-19 07:29:00 | And I have always wondered why there is never any "B" drive on PCs? A = floppy, C = main HD, D = CD/DVD, EFG = other add onsB drive is allocated for a second floppy drive (of various flavours), a sort of a left over option from the good old days of DOS programs. Either that, or the Microsoft Programmers only went to school to eat their lunch and not to learn the alphabet. :p |
Jen (38) | ||
| 380980 | 2005-08-19 09:45:00 | Speedy, that worked a treat. Removed one line and the boot up is normal. Seagate Diagnostic Tool is (almost, not quite) giving a clean bill of health, so we will run it a few more times. All done now, ....we think. Thanks again for your kind assistance. I think I've earned a Geek Certificate by now. :nerd: :lol: Jen, that story about the two floppy drives seems wrong, so I will go with the MS-no-alphabet instead. :thumbs: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 380981 | 2005-08-19 09:56:00 | Good to hear the boot.ini is fixed up Steve :thumbs: | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 380982 | 2005-08-19 10:16:00 | Ahhh, but the story of the 2 floppy drives is not a story, it actually was true back in the day. There used to be 5 1/4" true floppy drives as well as the later 3 1/2" mini floppy drives (currently in use today) | Myth (110) | ||
| 380983 | 2005-08-19 21:42:00 | So is it possible to now use the letter "B" for a drive? (Being too lazy to hunt around Control Panel, My Computer, Disk Management, etc...!) |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 380984 | 2005-08-19 21:49:00 | Depends if its in the BIOS as an option, for floppy . Dont think u can use it for a hdd tho . Not many programs like being installed to anything else BUT C . I had this prob on here, when I tried to use XP on D . XP installed on D OK . It was after I got into XP, I had probs . I forgot to unplug my internal USB2 card reader, before I formatted a while ago, and it was C lol . XP didnt like that and kept on telling me it couldnt find programs, if I tried to install on D . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 380985 | 2005-08-20 01:45:00 | Well, you have confirmed what I have thought - that unless Windows is installed on C drive, there will be problems. It seems that while Windows may be "OK" with another drive letter, programs installed default to "C" and so there is the conflict. Last night I was telling my friend (who has the PC that this thread started about) that he needs to back up his data to the partition "E", as well as doing a USB Flash and/or CD-RW/R backup. He then asked if installing the programs to "E" would be a good idea, and I told him that most programs that I know of default to "C" and even though often there is a choice to put the programs elsewhere, problems result. Glad to see this thread still going. Has been :) enjoyable. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 380986 | 2005-09-01 16:58:00 | As we know the left over space after installing windows xp, the unpartitioned space is not visible from Disk Managment "DISKMGMT.MSC". There for we cannot format it. From the Win XP boot menu we know we can install a second windows on the left over space which is then re-partitioned and formatted for us but windows is installed. We do not have to install windows here OR format anything. There is a point in the process, very early, when we are asked to choose which partition to install windows on. We choose the left over space and then the screen asks us to choose whether to install windows on this space or to quit/go back. If we go back at this point, we return to the menu where we are asked to choose where to install windows. Here we see that the previousely unpartitioned space has now been partitioned(RAW). Which i assume means allocated but not formatted, because it is not formatted. About 8gb were left spare, I know space left is required so i wasn't bothered! From here we reboot the PC into our already installed windows installation, run disk management and now the RAW partition is visible to us. All we need do now is right click on it and chose to format. I left the volume label blank as it is optional and left the other two options as they were ( ntfs and default, respectively)! EG: I have an 80gb hdu and win xp home. I partitioned about 15gb as drive C and installed windows and mcafee security suite on C. I then wanted to install everything else on the 60gb left but I could not access it because it was unpartitioned and unformatted. So I then followed the steps defined above and I now have a 15gb drive C and a 61.6gb drive F. I hope this is useful! I have been looking every where for a walk through on how to do this and after reading this thread and discovering disk management I sort of stumbled on the RAW partitioning in the XP boot. This may be the only walk through of this kind! if it is tell your friends |
greasytony (8717) | ||
| 380987 | 2005-09-01 21:27:00 | Thanks Tony. It is good to have this info in the Archive of messages so that others can access it. | Strommer (42) | ||
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