Re: Trying to use DOS boot disk to format SATA hard drive...

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XP needs the SATA drivers during the setup and will only look for them on the floppy drive.
XP during the installation is quite capable of partitioning and formating your hard drive.
As such there is no need to use a DOS boot disk..which if you let XP format to NTFS will not even
see the drive
Vista will also format the partition you install it on but to NTFS only...no choice
I normally use BootIt Ng
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm
it has a 30 day free trial........download it and extract it to a floppy or CD
start System and boot of floppy/CD then be sure to not install but run it off the floppy/CD.
peter


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"Ismael" <I_Tena@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#yeARj3WJHA.1528@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello everyone,

I own a HP pavilion dv6628us laptop. It has a MK1237GSX 120 GB SATA hard drive. I am trying to use a DOS boot disk to run fdisk to make two primary partitions and one extended partition then format the partitions to be fat32. Eventually I will install Vista on one primary partition then WinXP in the other primary partition.

The problems I'm encountering are the following:

1. I am able to see the hard drive via the DOS Ver. 4.00.1111 Win95 boot disk and able to use fdisk and format but unable to see the hard drive via WinXP setup unless I load the SATA drivers first...see the following website http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/nohdd/indexfullpage.htm

2. I am able to create a primary partition of 57 GB and make it active via fdisk but when I try to format this partition I am not able to format the full 57GB but only about 86% or about 49 GB.

Can anyone explain to me why my DOS boot disk sees the hard drive while WinXP needs the SATA drivers loaded first before it will recognize the hard drive.

If I format and install WinXP via the WinXP Setup CD and not use the Dos Boot disk at all can I still use the DOS boot disk to use fdisk to change the active partitions if I needed to in the future? Can I use the DOS boot disk to access the Fat32 primary partition and delete or rename files if need be? Can I still use the DOS boot disk with fdisk to create an extended partition containing logical partitions? After using the Dos boot disk to perform the above functions and reboot back into WinXP will WinXP see the logical partition and thus I can start placing files on this logical partition? If I should boot from the DOS boot disk would I be able to delete, rename, move files etc. on this same partition WinXP uses to delete, rename, move files etc.without fear of data corruption.

I'm thinking if I use this Dos boot disk I'll need to somehow get DOS SATA drivers and thus it will format, read, write etc. the same way WinXP does to access the SATA hard drive or am I going about this all wrong?

Any help/suggestions are much appreciated.


Ismael

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