Re: Regaining HD from previous install

"DL" <dl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#6t3X4PfGHA.764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Assuming you are installing to the correct drive, try
disconnecting 2nd hd, then booting with win cd and deleting
partition D, then recreating

<SNIP

Yes ... I found an answer .. not THE answer and not one I liked but the
only one available for now and similar to yours.

BTW, if you think about it ... 2 drives, each partitioned into two? ...
"D" IS the first partition on the SECOND drive.

Anyway .. Win 2000 writes something near 66kb in the boot sector of the
hard drive which it then reads and from which it get's it's opinion on
drive status .. by IT'S interpretation.

The only way I remedied this (and the only way I know) was to copy all
other data OFF the drive, fdisk then format and then ... Voila!!! ..
Win 2000 does then see the drive as empty. Even with NO data, W-2k said
the drive was full (0 bytes available) until I cleaned it totally.

As I said .. maybe not THE answer and definitely not the answer I
wanted, but is was AN answer. A genuine pain in the rear for a
supposedly smart GUI.


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