Problems with WIndows XP, ntfs and a ibm drive.

[dbcrossfire]

I just had a major crash last night and now I'm being told that it was because windows XP and ntfs along with a ibm drive is not a good combination. Anyone else heard anything on this?

 

[Theodrizian]

Who is telling you this? Maybe you got one of those bad IBM drives. Maybe something happened with XP itself.

 

[dbcrossfire]

a friend of mine that also had the same prob and was only able to get xp to run on his deskstar using FAT

 

[Theodrizian]

Hmm.. I see... odd... I'm sorry that you and your friend had problems with your setups, but I think it's an IBM drive problem. That's my opinion though.

 

[WicKeD]

I am running Win XP pro on a 60gb ibm 60gxp HDD with NTFS. No problems at all..............

 

[quadcells]

I have three different computers running WIN XP using 20gig, 30 gig, 60 gig IBM hard drives. No problems here.

 

[Davegod75]

no problems here...two ibm drives

 

[dbcrossfire]

I must just be stupid then... the setup keeps hanging about halfway through then I get a big blue error screen and a memory dump, comp restarts and the restarts the install.

 

[NesuD]

Just a shot in the dark here but if the drive had been partitioned previously something may be wacked out on it. Try writing Zeros to the drive and then see if you can install to an NTFS partition. The low level format in their Drive Fitness Test utility should do the job.