Re: Hard disk problem


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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.

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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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"Paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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
>
>


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