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    Problem with partitions

    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...
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    SATA drives recognized incorrectly in XP

    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...
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    boot problem

    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...