tomandjerry

2.5 HD is on the primary IDE controller and it is master / drive 0. It is detected in bios and there is no other hard drive connected. The only other thing connected is the dvd drive which is on secondary ide but the xp setup does not create partition or format it.

So in brief, i have the 2.5 HD connected on primary and the dvd drive on the secondary and it shows up fine in bios but for some strange reason the p setup does not create partition. I press "c" on the partition screen and it asks how much space i want to allocate, i select whatever it shows on there which is the max available space and it goes back to previous screen and there is no change.

The reason why i connected the original hdd back and then connected the 2.5 HD on the secondary was to try and format it under windows, check if the 2.5 HD works properly. But it does not matter what i do the xp setup is unable to create partition on it.