Hard disk problem

[Paul]

A few day ago I done a clean installation of Win Xp pro plus SP2 (I was
using Win2k). I have 3 hard disks:
disk1 - Seagate 40Gb (boot disk) (2 partitions of 20Gb)
disk2 - Maxtor 80Gb ( 4 partitions of 20Gb)
disk 3 - Maxtor 200Gb ( 3 partitions of 60Gb plus 1 partition of 20Gb)

I am using the Maxtor utility Maxblast V4 and Maxtor 'Big disk enabler' to
overcome the problems of the large disk size with my bios etc. (this is the
same setup as I had with Win2k).
When I start Win xp from cold it reports disk2 as a single disk but
unformatted (unusable) - if I then carry out a restart from the shut down
menu it then shows disk 2 correctly formatted, partitioned and usable. I
cane carry out as many soft restarts as I want and disk 2 is ok but as soon
as I shut down and then start up again, disk 2 is shown unformatted.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Paul

 

[Guest]

You should not need Maxblast V4 and Maxtor 'Big disk enabler' in XP SP2 that
proplom was fixed

 

[Guest]

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You may want to test by booting with a floppy and | fdisk | partition |
format | reinstall XP without the Maxtor and let XP install and format all
partitions.

You will find much more info at:

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