-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 20:00, Marc wrote: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: > > > Ahh well enough of a rant for now. > > > > Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition > > Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden partition causing the > > problem you could probably get rid of it that way. > > > > Anne > > No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think > the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same > problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non > microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the > HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios > could find it again.
You could be right, but I was thinking that Gateway may have already doctored the drives before sending them out. After all, recovery disks usually mean setting everything back to a blank install, so it would be quite possible. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXMd4kFAvMr/nNX8RAlLXAJ4/0B+pMCsYM7Hgv2pOyY27TPSmDgCfV3fz LRxn3KdxNVIBhUgFAE7RFrI= =Vxdh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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