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Originally Posted by Indoril Nerevar
I've used Disk Management in Windows many many times to partition and format my slave drives, and I've never had any trouble at all.
I have also used my computer to partition and format many drives for use as slaves in other computers, and I have had no trouble at all. The only time I have come across the problem you describe (drive being seen as unusable) is when the hard drive in question is faulty. So, is there some other factor to take into account here, or what?
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this is exactly my testimony as well.
why is it i've never ever ever seen this problem, despite using it to partition and format drives that are headed for other pc's?
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Originally Posted by Indoril Nerevar
One other thing - all of my drives are Seagate drives, and most of the drives I deal with at work are Seagate ones. We rarely use Western Digital drives (a matter of preference).
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mine are almost all western digital. where's the connection?
i am testing it again as we speak, just so i can be 101% sure that i know i'm correct.
also, here at my house, reinstalling is a ritual.
we always leave all the partitions in place, (ones that were made with that console) and when we reformat and reinstall xp, the data has ALWAYS been there, on a nice happy ntfs partition.