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Subject: 20 gig hd partition
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sonicbom 14.08.10 - 05:30am
I have got a 20gig harddisk from my friend. He had a old p4(pinned) system with 1gig ddr1 and also those old stuffs. That hard disk had 2 partition. 16 gb nd 3gb Did the backup of that harddisk from d drive but c drive i.e 16gig cant be accessed. I tried a couple of linux live cds. * +
sonicbom 14.08.10 - 05:34am
He now told me to do full format it and reinstall xp. So deleted all partition and created 15gig and remaining to d drive and when Press enter to install xp in c drive the 15gig get divided in 9 and 8 gig thus creating three partition. Strange never saw thing like that * +
sonicbom 14.08.10 - 05:36am
So what could be a problem. * +
jay.mack 14.08.10 - 05:47am
maybe a jumper config on the underside of the drive or on the back. some old hdds were configured this way when 8 gig was the max accessable by the system, thus the drive would auto configure 2 partitions to enable the drive to work. possable solution find the drives pdf. * +
sonicbom 14.08.10 - 06:05am
You mean Jumper at the back of the harddisk besides power supply ? And I forgot to tell the installation wont go further * +
sonicbom 14.08.10 - 06:09am
You mean Jumper at the back of the harddisk besides power supply ? And I forgot to tell the installation wont go further does that mean hard disk is dead ? * +
sonicbom 14.08.10 - 06:10am
does that mean hard disk is dead ? * +
jay.mack 14.08.10 - 06:30am
the jumper by the molex is normaly a master, slave, cable select . if its a 6 pin then thats what it is. * +
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