ARghhhhh.....Everytime I format, something new goes wrong - why is it such a difficult task to format
a harddisk, I wish MS would concentrate all their programmers on making formatting and re-installing
windows an easy task
This was my old setup, before I bought my new WD 120GB hd:
My comp = C:\ on a 40gb IBM, D:\ on a 80gb Maxtor
Father's comp: C:\ on a 80gb Maxtor, D:\ on a 80 gb Maxtor
All maxtors are the D740X model.
So I wanted to have my 80gb maxtor as C:\, and the new 120gb as D:\.
After a lot of harddisk switching, involving both my father's and my own comp,
I had transferred all the contents of my previous disks to my new disk, leaving only 10gb
freespace.
So my main object and the only thing left to do, was to format and install windows on my
80gb maxtor... I plugged it in as master, and put my win XP cdrom in the drive...
For the first time ever, that bootable-cd thingy worked, and I thought "aaah finally an
easy format, without having to use bootdisks and the like"... It progressed alright,
and luckily the install prog found and formatted all 80gb of my disk. So after it had finished
copying the file etc, it told me to pull out all disks and restart... I did, but when it was time
for windows to start, it gave me an error, smth like: "Error reading from device"...
So I restarted a few times, same problem...........I tried formatting and installing win XP
again, but to no avail.... Then I found my win2000 cd, which isn't bootable, so I had to use
my old but trusty win98 SE boot diskette. Win2000 install only located around 11-12 GB
of my harddisk for some reason, but I was ready to accept that if only I could get
windows running - it finished copying the files as win xp had did, and I restarted -
Only to get an error saying smth like: "Operating system not found".
So this is my main problem, and I don't know what to do :/
Second problem is with my father's comp - after I re-plugged his old
D:\-drive, it isn't found by windows... the D:\ drive has simply vanished, It is not
even present in Disk Management... I went and looked in the bios, and there it said:
Primary Master: MAXTOR [model number]
Primary Slave: MAXUOS [model number] !
- Notice the exclamation sign and spelling error,
they were present in the bios-screen too, have never seen that b4...
I hope someone will take the time to read this and give me some advice..¨
PS: All the harddrives are less than 6 months old..
a harddisk, I wish MS would concentrate all their programmers on making formatting and re-installing
windows an easy task
This was my old setup, before I bought my new WD 120GB hd:
My comp = C:\ on a 40gb IBM, D:\ on a 80gb Maxtor
Father's comp: C:\ on a 80gb Maxtor, D:\ on a 80 gb Maxtor
All maxtors are the D740X model.
So I wanted to have my 80gb maxtor as C:\, and the new 120gb as D:\.
After a lot of harddisk switching, involving both my father's and my own comp,
I had transferred all the contents of my previous disks to my new disk, leaving only 10gb
freespace.
So my main object and the only thing left to do, was to format and install windows on my
80gb maxtor... I plugged it in as master, and put my win XP cdrom in the drive...
For the first time ever, that bootable-cd thingy worked, and I thought "aaah finally an
easy format, without having to use bootdisks and the like"... It progressed alright,
and luckily the install prog found and formatted all 80gb of my disk. So after it had finished
copying the file etc, it told me to pull out all disks and restart... I did, but when it was time
for windows to start, it gave me an error, smth like: "Error reading from device"...
So I restarted a few times, same problem...........I tried formatting and installing win XP
again, but to no avail.... Then I found my win2000 cd, which isn't bootable, so I had to use
my old but trusty win98 SE boot diskette. Win2000 install only located around 11-12 GB
of my harddisk for some reason, but I was ready to accept that if only I could get
windows running - it finished copying the files as win xp had did, and I restarted -
Only to get an error saying smth like: "Operating system not found".
So this is my main problem, and I don't know what to do :/
Second problem is with my father's comp - after I re-plugged his old
D:\-drive, it isn't found by windows... the D:\ drive has simply vanished, It is not
even present in Disk Management... I went and looked in the bios, and there it said:
Primary Master: MAXTOR [model number]
Primary Slave: MAXUOS [model number] !
- Notice the exclamation sign and spelling error,
they were present in the bios-screen too, have never seen that b4...
I hope someone will take the time to read this and give me some advice..¨
PS: All the harddrives are less than 6 months old..
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