Are you by chance running in "compatibility mode"? What cards are installed on the system? Have you tried installing with only the vid card installed? So you have used the WD disk to format the drive, the windows su disk to format the drive, have you used the win cd to format the drive? I know it's tedious but I had a similar event installing win2k between the su disk's and the cd.
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 09:58 AM 4/14/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton spoke this: >I went ahead and installed windows again anyway after >reformatting again using the SU disk, same thing!! STILL >cannot run scandisk! >-Clint > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton" > > >I've use the floppy before with no problems. It is NOT the >new one that has all that garbage on it that screws a HD up >(it's v9.09). > >Well Greg, I used the windows SU disk to format the HD this >time and it STILL is showing 4096k cluster sizes! > > >>>From your other reply: >Use chkdsk, to determine cluster size ... >http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#scandisk > >I did that, and it shows the cluster size ("allocation >units") @ 4096K! So, I don't get it. Why does Sandra Pro >state 16k???? > >I will reformat again using the windows SU disk as it >suggests and see what that does. I can't understand though >why I have never seen this problem before on 15gb, 18gb, 20gb > >>>or 45gb drives. > >What now? :-) Why am I having this problem now? I NEVER >have before with large HD's. How do I change the cluster >size to 16k? (If this is the consensus as to what is causing >the problem). >-Clint > >God Bless Us All >Clint Hamilton, Owner >http://OrpheusComputing.com > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Have you tried the WD install disk with other drives, perhaps >it is >corrupted. I try not to use vendor setup disc's anymore, too >many errors found. > >Peter Kaulback > >In the hour of 08:17 AM 4/14/2002 -0500, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-Clint Hamilton spoke this: > > >the problem since it's set to 16k and no 3rd party software > >was used. ? According to the other text on that page, 16k >is > >correct for a 17.2gb drive: > > > > Hard disk size Cluster size > > ------------------------------- > > 16 GB and larger 16 KB ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
