Dynamic Drive Overlay and installs

[coville]

I've put together a new system AMD64 3000+ with 512 megs of ram on an ASUS K8V deluxe MB with a 160 gig WD HD. I first installed XP w/o SP1 and could only see ~137 gigs of the HD using the included Dynamic Driver Overlay. Tried to use Partition Magic 8 to resize the two partitions to install Mandrake for AMD64 and farked everything up. Blew the partitions away and tried loading with and with out DDO installed. Apparently w/o DDO both Mandrake and XP see the drive as 32 gigs in size. With DDO installed I get errors using PM and trying to set partitions for the install of Mandrake. I searched on Dynamic Disk Overlay but didn't find any answers. Anyone know the best approach to installing XP and Linux on a 160 gig HD? Is there a writeup somewhere that I didn't find? Can I do it with out DDO?

I've been running OS/2 on a PPRO 180 for the last few years. Whenever I tried to install Linux I ran up against the partition problems and stopped not wanting to screw up a working system. Now that I'm starting fresh is the time to get it installed so I can learn Linux but I've not been able to get both OS's installed and see all my HD space. I have had Mandrake installed but it didn't boot to KDE.

Thanks for any help, pointers or web referances!

Brian

 

[Smilin]

You should be able to get a modern controller for a few bucks. Friends don't let friends use drive overlays.

 

[coville]

You should be able to get a modern controller for a few bucks. Friends don't let friends use drive overlays

Actually, until I screwed up w/ the WD tools the bios recognized it correctly. The Problem is installing WinXP . It only recognizes it as 137 w/o SP1. I'm trying to figure out how to correct the WD tools error making it appear now as a 33.8 gig HD and how to partition it the way I want it so that both WinXP and Linux will recognize their install partitions and the total partitions equal 160 gigs.

 

[LiLithTecH]

I think the controller on the motherboard is more than capable
of handling the 160 gig drive.

Then make sure that LBA MODE (Auto) is set in the BIOS for the IDE Controller the drive is installed on.
If it is Disabled, you would be wise to start FRESH (wipe out drive), set to AUTO and then Partition.

You also need to REMOVE the DRIVE OVERLAY (from DOS Prompt type FDISK /mbr)