Re: From Dual-Boot with GRUB back to Win XP Pro "pure" system

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"wboncyk" <wboncyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I should be more specific. The drivers for my Maxtor SATA PCI card and the
drive are installed, and the Device Manager recognizes the Maxtor 6B200M0
as
a SCSI drive (as it should), but the drive is not partitioned and
formatted,
so Win XP doesn't assign it drive letters. I wanted to use the vendor
supplied Maxtor MaxBlast utility to partition and format it under Windows,
but that's when I ran into the problem -- MaxBlast won't run with the GRUB
loader installed.


XP should be able to handle it. Bring up the disk manager
(control-administrative-management-diskmanagment) and look for your new
disk. It should be there since the device manager found it.
Initialize it, assign a drive letter and format. dont select dynamic. you
should be ok as long as you are not going to boot from it.


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