Re: Strangest Xp error of them all

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I have SP2 and I used the WD utility to set up the drive and the windows
version to enable 137gb+ drive

I have a k7vme





"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> "Bugmage" <Bugmage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:0C10B946-9C13-43C2-8FE5-B370C33F49F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Ok I have
> > Amd xp 3000+
> > 200gb wd hd
> > 1 gig of ram
> >
> > windows xp pro
> >
> > Ok now heres my problem, I can click shutdown and restart or hit the reset
> > button on my pc and xp boots up fine. When i hit shutdown however and try
> > to
> > boot up i get unmountable boot error. Now if i boot off anohter device
> > like
> > my westerdigital utility floppy or windows xp cd, then restart windows
> > loads
> > fine. However if i go into the repair consule after a shutdown instead of
> > having my 4 main partitions i have 1 partition thats not the right size.
> > Also it wont let me run chkdsk /r because it says theres errors, and ive
> > tryed fixboot but that ruined my c partition and i had to format again,
> > but i
> > still have same problem. Also i cannot type dir to view the C partition
> > either. So im at a loss. It has to be something with the shutdown in xp
> > professional thats changing my master boot table, but I have no clue
> >
> > Any Ideas?
>
> Does your XP CD have SP1 or SP2? If it doesn't then it won't work properly
> with drives larger than 137 GB. Also if your motherboard doesn't support 48
> bit LBA and you used the Western Digital utility to install the hard drive
> then you must either boot from the hard drive or the WD utility so the
> relevant BIOS code will be replaced with the WD software. What motherboard
> do you have? See this link for info on 48 bit LBA.
>
> http://www.48bitlba.com/
>
> Kerry
>
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