Re: Can't recover partition to install xp
- From: "Al Botteon" <albotteon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:04:28 -0400
"Al Botteon" <albotteon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can't believe the ultimate solution. And I didn't get this till very early
in the am (3:00am). I worked on this all day, took advantage of all your
suggestions. I'm sure the fix happened way earlier in the day. Just to
summarize, I had used an XP Pro installation CD to format my drive on my
Dell Dimension 8400 (which I bought used, w/no CDs) and install XP Pro. I
even experimented with slipstreaming SP3, and all worked ok. Actually have
used this CD numerous times in experimenting. Here's when trouble began:
I tried resizing (at this point thinking to save data and set up new
partition)my only partition (NTFS) with Gparted because I had no installed
floppy and couldn't use older Partition Magic (8.0) diskettes. For first
time in using Gparted, it failed to execute. I went thru trouble of
grabbing a floppy from another machine and installing, using PM diskettes,
and tried to resize and it failed. (said I need to upgrade to 8.01 then
apply 8.01 patch). So I used PM to reformat, thinking let's start from
scratch, and I don't care about data. Backed up what needed, and this is
when horror started with getting to the boot point where it says now
starting windows, would hang briefly, then tell me can't find hard drive,
use F3 to quit. So I tried all suggestions in post. Nothing changed. I had
already planned to send the WD HD back for a new one (expires july 09),
when at 3:00 am I took an old purple colored Dell Home edition xp install
disk (can't remember what it came with, certainly not this computer) and
it setup fine and recognized whole 80GB HD. From there I finished install,
then upgraded to Xp Pro SP3 with slipstreamed disk. Now you tell me why
this happened. It's Dell somehow. Yet I used this non Dell Xp Pro cd (both
slipstreamed and bare) many times successfully. I'm out to lunch on this
one, but I'm back in business. Thanks for the help. Even learned a little
more about Linux.
Al
I just wanted to update this post with a question that still remains.
Although the above indicates that I have solved the issue, that is not the
case fully. I did manage to get a Windows installation occupying the full 80
GB. So apparently Linux influence is gone. However, unlike any previous
experience I've had with this HD, the way it is now is that if I throw in
any Windows bootable OS CD, it will load to a point and then say can't find
HD, and ask me to F3 quit.Why is this? The only CD that will successfully
load is any Linuxd distribution, or just the purple, old Dell Xp Home CD.
Why not any other Windows OS CD? Never had this b4. So where I was
originally going to mail back and get a new HD (under warranty till July),
now I am still considering. Unless someone recognizes exactly what happened.
Somewhere I read that if I did a Win98 startup disk and did fdisk /mbr that
I possibly screwed some recognition or state that I didn't understand. Did I
stop my system from recognizing Windows unless somehow it's a Dell disc.
Never had that happen before that I couldn't use any windows cd to reinstall
on a Dell or Gateway computer, once formatted. Help
Al
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