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Cal Pierce
I installed a Western Digital WD1200JB drive as the master drive. Using WD's Data Lifeguard Tools v.10.0, I specified that I wanted to create a 100GB partition (I specified 95393 units, or 80% of the 100,000+ maximum available) and copy the contents of my existing XinXP Home boot drive (a 60 GB Maxtor drive). The formatting finished, I rebooted into WinXP, which informed me that it had found new hardware: (1) the new WD drive, then (2) another disk drive; then it said that the software that controls the drive requires a reboot. After doing that, Windows Explorer showed only a C: drive of 57.26 GB; my DC-ROM and DVD drives are still D: and E:, and my Zip drive is still F: As instructed by a WD help file (answer ID 78), I ran Disk Management; it showed: (1) Disk 0, Basic, 111.79 GB, Online, Primary partition: WinXP = 57.26 GB NTFS, Healthy (System), 54.53 GB unallocated; and (2) Disk 1, Basic, 57.26 GB, Online, Primary partition: WinXP (C
= 57.26 GB NTFS, Healthy (Boot). Right-clicking properties showed that both drives are correctly identified as the WD and Maxtor units. But I am unable to right-click anywhere and access an Initialize command (as suggested in the help file 78). In sum, I was unable to create a 100 GB primary partition on the WD drive; WinXP has not assigned it the C: drive letter; my system appears to be booting from the Maxtor drive instead.... [CUT the FRUIT to e-mail me]
= 57.26 GB NTFS, Healthy (Boot). Right-clicking properties showed that both drives are correctly identified as the WD and Maxtor units. But I am unable to right-click anywhere and access an Initialize command (as suggested in the help file 78). In sum, I was unable to create a 100 GB primary partition on the WD drive; WinXP has not assigned it the C: drive letter; my system appears to be booting from the Maxtor drive instead.... [CUT the FRUIT to e-mail me]