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New Setup - Several boot problems

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by JimmyHetfield, 2006/05/08.

  1. 2006/05/08
    JimmyHetfield

    JimmyHetfield Inactive Thread Starter

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    I've just bought a new system and am having trouble getting it to boot..

    Here's the specs:

    Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe
    AMD64 3500+ Venice
    2gb Corsair ram
    300gb Sata2 Maxtor drive


    I first booted from the MaxBlaster CD, and setup my drive with 4 partitions, 120gb, 30gb, 80gb, 70gb. The system restarts and I boot from my Win2k floppy disks, changing to the win2k cd when requested. Windows setup shows strange results for the partitioned drives - two show as "unformatted or damaged" and then it shows an unpartitioned section. anywho, I select the c: partition and windows starts to format this drive. System reboots but I get this message:

    I don't have a Repair Disk as I've lost it, and my current 2k install on different machine can't create a repair disk as its backup tool is err, missing o_O



    I've checked the Maxtor site and my drive isn't listed as having problems with the mobos nvidia drivers and doesn't require a firmware upgrade. The drive shows as a 300Gb drive in bios also.

    Any help would be much appreciated :)

    - James
     
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  2. 2006/05/08
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    James

    I'm not familiar with W2k, but I run the same mobo with 2 x SATA drives (not in RAID) + an EIDE drive.

    When installing XP you need to load the SATA drivers, including those for RAID by pressing F6 at an early point in the installation. I don't know what the procedure is for W2k.

    BTW you make a driver disk from the mobo CD - read the manual.

    Edit - checked the manual - page 5.40, Section 5.6 - W2K and XP.
     
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    Arie

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    Well, there's a possible red flag there. Probably the drive is using drive-overlay software.

    I suggest checking & removing if that's the case.

    You can just boot from the Win2K CD & do all partitioning & formatting from there...
     
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  5. 2006/05/12
    JimmyHetfield

    JimmyHetfield Inactive Thread Starter

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    Partitioning the drive from the Win2k boot cd doesn't work because it only allows 5 digits to be entered, leaving the partitions the wrong size for what I need.

    Anyway, problem solved. I reformatted the whole drive, installed Windoze and partitioned it through Partition Magic.

    Now I've got a few problems with XCOM event receiver and my connections tray freezing after being online for a short while. I can't shut down win2k either, so I have to reboot manually. I've reinstalled and updated the modem drivers 4 or 5 times now too :mad:

    [edit] Will post a new topic for this.
     
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  6. 2006/05/16
    Dcrypter

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    Win2k has a small problem with seeing drives larger than 250GB, during install. When installing you have to make sure you use the SATA drivers disc during setup F6 at the first screen. Once you can see the drive make a partition to install windows. Once into Windows you need to enable Large LBA

    Enable Large LBA

    When partitoning the size of your install partiton I would suggest writing down the number you use, in the event you need to reinstall.
     
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  7. 2006/05/17
    JimmyHetfield

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    I used Maxtor's Big Drive Enabler for this. And I made note of the mb number :)
     
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