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Update: the problem solved by reverting back to an old version of Acronis Disk Director - stay away from their 2010 version

I used Acronis Disk Director for creating and managing partitions on one disk (boot disk), and the Windows Disk Manager showed "ghost" partitions. The Acronis support said - don't worry, Windows XP just could not refresh the changes made by our program!! (why would you want such a program at...

I posted originally in Storage http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2096891 Thankfully, it seems not a hardware problem. Windows XP SP3 Disk Manager refused to refresh partitions changes made by a 3d party software (Acronis Disk Director). It is seeng two ghost partitions (no...

Well, I got a reply from Acronis - that Windows Drive Manager failed to resresh partitions made by Disk Director, and I should either leave it as is (don't worry, it'll probably allright) or reformat, repartition and reinstall! Thy would gladly help guiding me through the process... What I...

Yes, I am seeing two extra partitions: 62 GB (duplicating my System c: partition, and declared "free", plus that 121 GB partition ("unallocated")

So, what you see as 649 GB - is actually a 500 GB SATA (the SATA RAID below 149 GB is now OK after the driver reinstall)

OK - thanks for looking

My system (XP SP3) is installed on a 500 GB single SATA drive. In addition, two 80 GB SATA drives are set up in a RAID 0 config. Drive manager in Windows shows for those two: one 75 GB and one 149 GB (some storage wasted for formatting, that's OK, but where this 75 comes from?) Then, the...

Windows XP Device Manager is also showing extra partitions (extra storage) in the OS SATA drive - like for the 500 GB HDD is shows an additional 60 GB on an extra partition, that is, duplicating the 60 GB of the active partition used by Windows XP. I think I should post this in Storage

I had a similar problem on XP. Windows installed itself on a disk different from the boot disk. I had to delete several partitions and leave it no choice but to install on a single active partition that was left.

Fresh installed XP - on a new SATA 500 GB disk The old RAID configuration made of two 80 GB SATA disks is recognized in BIOS but Disk magager in XP shows 1: 75 GB and 2: 149 GB meaning that in addition to the 2-SATA RAID (149 GB considering some lost - inallocated - space) it shows one of...

Thanks Harvey Yes, I cleared the CMOS, replaced the battery, reflashed the BIOS, then reinstalled XP and yes, I have obviously the partition-related problem, that need some exploring. At this point Windows is starting in safe mode only, since it's confused between two identical installations...

Thank you guys for taking time to explain the possibilities to me. I am on that stage when I've already tired to copy-paste the possibly missing hal.dll, and I also was able to create images of my partitions (some were already made before, some I was able to create using the Acronis True Image...

Hello everybody My XP system stopped working after a BIOS flash (AWARD bios, GA board). There were no problems during the flash, but restart gave me error messages (missing hal.dll). I found plenty of info about this (possibly mbr corrupted etc.), and followed advices, but nothing helped. I...