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BACKUP your DATA -------------- I'm trying to copy from old 80Gb ATA66 drives to new ones and just had one of the new drives wiped looks like I either have a bad drive there, or what now seems more likely My addin PCI board, IDE controller may be failing, or not like drives as large as 250GB Luckily I still have the original, but it could just as easily wiped (corrupted) the source drive partitions But that's just part of my current problems ---------- If you truly deleted a partition then it should show as unallocated space, not as unformatted Note that the partition for W2K should, ideally, be at the start of the drive (ideally) It should be a Primary partition It should be Active It should be Installable, or Bootable (Bootable implies an existing OS) BUT ---- IS the CD you have from a pucker W2K Retail - fully functional package or is it an Upgrade only CD, or is it a System linked OEM CD If it's an upgrade then it will only upgrade an existing bootable partition that contains a 'qualifying' 'Windows OS' JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Franc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Setting up new HD? > Wayne Johnson wrote: > > At 10:00 PM 9/9/2005, Sam Franc typed: > > > >> Are you saying that I could have run the W2000 CD to an unformatted > >> drive and it would have formatted and installed W2000 to it? > >> I was under the impression that the drive had to be formatted before > >> it could be accessed and installed to. > > > > > > 2 others before me have said the same thing. All drives have to be > > partitioned & formatted 1st prior to install a Windows OS but since 2k > > all Windows OSes installs will do this for you. Why are you using > > Fat32? IIRC Fat32 was NOT originally supported with 2k but was added > > with subsequent service packs. If my memory is correct & you're trying > > to install with an original 2k disk it's no wonder it won't see your > > partition/format information. > > OK, I converted a partition to NTFS and it still will not recognize it > as a compatible partition. > I Deleted a partition in W2000 setup screen and it comes back as an > unformatted partition. > It will not recognize this partition or format it. > I am going around in a circle. > I have a lot of files on the third partition on the disk, so I do not > want to reformat the whole disk. > I must have a blind spot on this issue. > Sam > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
