Strange, is the drve the only drive in your machine? Just curious.
I just installed a 250 Gig drive in my wife's machine. Windows ME was unable
to correctly partition the drive. I installed ML9.0 on the system Sliced the
drive into 4 partitions via Mandrake and placed ML in partition 2. Then
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> I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk
> working on my Mdk 9.0 system.
>
> When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs
> indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk
> was virginal from the store, and now that I hav
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote:
> I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk
> working on my Mdk 9.0 system.
>
> When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs
> indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk
> was virginal from the store, and now t
Since you have Windows, the first thing I would do is d/l the diagnostic
utility (PowerMax) from the Maxtor web site and run that. (Actually, you run
the downloaded program that then creates a boot disk...)
It may be co-incidence, but I just got the same drive for my father (at least
it was a
If there is a jumper on the disk to reduce the size, try that (for
testing), this might eliminate the possiblity that the drive is faulty.
Although it works in win2k, have you done a surface scan there?
It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you
could search google
I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk
working on my Mdk 9.0 system.
When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs
indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk
was virginal from the store, and now that I have created
a single large primary partition on it with Win2K
