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Thanks in advance in anyone can help with this.
I have one of the above drives, partitioned into 4 by Partition Magic. I
wanted to do a clean install of XP, so I reformatted the system portion of
the drive, in a rather blaze way, with the aim of re-installing a fresh copy
of XP on a nice clean partition.
Typically, and probably deservedly, it didn't work. I would get through the
first stage of installation, but when it would first restart the computer,
it would go back to the start, rather than continuing with the installation.
Eventually threw my toys out of the pram and installed XP on an old IBM
drive I had lying around. I reformatted it, and it worked first time.
I got my system up and running again, and did all sorts of scans on the
Maxtor drive to see if I could figure out the problem. But all the scans
said the disc was fine, and I could read all the data on the other
partitions with no problems.
I could have left it there, as my system is now working, but what fun would
that be, right?
So I set about trying to get XP back on my Maxtor drive (primarily because
the old IBM drive is one noisy son of a bitch and no mistake!). The easiest
way I could see was to copy all the stuff from by IBM drive to the Maxtor
drive, using Partition Magic 8 again. When doing this, I was warned that
this copied partition might not be bootable, but no way as far as I could
see to make it bootable. So I took my chances, and low and behold, it didn't
work. Either I got an invalid partition table, or the computer would freeze
when verifying DMI pool (I did it several times in several different ways,
all to no avail).
So it seems that something I have done has made my Maxtor drive unbootable.
I can install a copy of XP on it, and I can even run a copy of XP on it, but
only when it is connected as a primary slave to the IBM. Is there anything I
can do to correct this, and make the drive bootable. As a worse case
scenario, would deleting all the info on the disc, even on the other
partitions, and completely reformmating the drive make it better, or do I
have some sort of drive problem that an RMA would solve.
My system is +2100 athlon, an asus A7n8X delux MB, 1gb of ram, with XP HOME
now residing on an old and very noisy IBM drive, with a sleek and sexy 160gb
Maxtor working perfectly well as a slave, but failing miserable as a
bootable disc.
Sorry for the length, but its been a long weekend!
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Cheers
Paul
I have one of the above drives, partitioned into 4 by Partition Magic. I
wanted to do a clean install of XP, so I reformatted the system portion of
the drive, in a rather blaze way, with the aim of re-installing a fresh copy
of XP on a nice clean partition.
Typically, and probably deservedly, it didn't work. I would get through the
first stage of installation, but when it would first restart the computer,
it would go back to the start, rather than continuing with the installation.
Eventually threw my toys out of the pram and installed XP on an old IBM
drive I had lying around. I reformatted it, and it worked first time.
I got my system up and running again, and did all sorts of scans on the
Maxtor drive to see if I could figure out the problem. But all the scans
said the disc was fine, and I could read all the data on the other
partitions with no problems.
I could have left it there, as my system is now working, but what fun would
that be, right?
So I set about trying to get XP back on my Maxtor drive (primarily because
the old IBM drive is one noisy son of a bitch and no mistake!). The easiest
way I could see was to copy all the stuff from by IBM drive to the Maxtor
drive, using Partition Magic 8 again. When doing this, I was warned that
this copied partition might not be bootable, but no way as far as I could
see to make it bootable. So I took my chances, and low and behold, it didn't
work. Either I got an invalid partition table, or the computer would freeze
when verifying DMI pool (I did it several times in several different ways,
all to no avail).
So it seems that something I have done has made my Maxtor drive unbootable.
I can install a copy of XP on it, and I can even run a copy of XP on it, but
only when it is connected as a primary slave to the IBM. Is there anything I
can do to correct this, and make the drive bootable. As a worse case
scenario, would deleting all the info on the disc, even on the other
partitions, and completely reformmating the drive make it better, or do I
have some sort of drive problem that an RMA would solve.
My system is +2100 athlon, an asus A7n8X delux MB, 1gb of ram, with XP HOME
now residing on an old and very noisy IBM drive, with a sleek and sexy 160gb
Maxtor working perfectly well as a slave, but failing miserable as a
bootable disc.
Sorry for the length, but its been a long weekend!
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Cheers
Paul