its about to hit the fan

atinypoop · 06-15-2005, 05:34 PM

i have an 80 gig maxtor quick veiw and its only recognized as an 7 somthing gig how this also i have a 40 gig seagate barracuda and it wont instal win xp right

any soggestions

**linderman** · 06-15-2005, 07:21 PM

What was the status of the drives prior to trying to install windows on the drives / did they come from another computer / were they "bootable" drives from another computer ?????????

download a win98SE boot disk from www.bootdisk.com / it will give you instructions for making a bootable floppy disk

but it in your floppy drive and boot from it

you will get an A: prompt

type A:FDISK

and hit enter

when it ask if you want support for large disks / click yes

go into Option # 4

view partion information / in there you should see what partitions you have / and which partition is set to active

DONT do anything else in there unless you understand partioning and want to delete and "wipe off your drive"

regards:

joe

crazijoe · 06-17-2005, 05:30 AM

How old is the system and did you update the BIOS?

06-15-2005, 05:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
atinypoop Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 18 OS: xp	its about to hit the fan i have an 80 gig maxtor quick veiw and its only recognized as an 7 somthing gig how this also i have a 40 gig seagate barracuda and it wont instal win xp right any soggestions

06-15-2005, 07:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,442 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	What was the status of the drives prior to trying to install windows on the drives / did they come from another computer / were they "bootable" drives from another computer ????????? download a win98SE boot disk from www.bootdisk.com / it will give you instructions for making a bootable floppy disk but it in your floppy drive and boot from it you will get an A: prompt type A:FDISK and hit enter when it ask if you want support for large disks / click yes go into Option # 4 view partion information / in there you should see what partitions you have / and which partition is set to active DONT do anything else in there unless you understand partioning and want to delete and "wipe off your drive" regards: joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

06-17-2005, 05:30 AM	#3 (permalink)
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