Installation problem
- From: avenue10@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 26 Aug 2006 08:50:46 -0700
Hi all,
My hard drive crashed and I am attempting to reinstall XP. I took out
my old drive (only one) and made my new drive the master drive. I
messed up the install process and it kinda worked sometimes but
eventually I resorted to using fdisk (from my Win 98 startup disk) and
also tried the free fdisk tool. Somehow, I don't know how, I have
managed to make 300 gig drive become a 33 gig hard drive. I tried using
both fdisks programs to delete all partitions. Then I went to the
Seagate utility (my hd is from Seagate) and it said my size was 300.
I thought I was all set, but when the XP install came up, it said I
still had 33 gigs. Somewhere, it's caching that information. I thought
the MBR containted the "load the os" instructions, so in fdisk I used
the options /ambr and /smbr.
Where is it storing this 33 gig information, how do I get rid of it,
and how do I make XP install recognize my full 300 gigs. I am using XP
w/SP2.
Thanks in advance!
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