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| #1 By 163 (64.4.228.85) at Saturday, June 07, 2003 06:09:27 PM |
| Here's a weird one. I reinstalled XP Pro and during the installation process I selected NTFS Format (not the quick one). I tried it several time, it would freeze, restart, display an error message, etc. I then booted with a win 98 disk and used fdisk and formated using FAT32. Restarted with the XP CD (by then I made a backup copy of the XP CD at the office thinking that the CD was damaged). Tried the formating again and nothing. So I tried the Quick NTFS formatting and it worked! However, I decided to try it a third time thinking that the hard drive was damaged or something, it didn't work again. What is causing this? I have a Western Digital Drive (40 gig) and ran their diagnostic tools, it works fine. If I install windows 98, Me, or 2000, everything works fine, if I use the Quick formatting in XP, it works fine, but it's not working if I use the longer formatting option (It used to work). I have a custom built AMD Athlon XP 1.7 gig, 256 RAM Computer. Any thoughts, comments, help will be appreciated!. Thank you. |
| #2 By 163 (64.4.224.39) at Wednesday, June 11, 2003 02:36:49 AM |
| I didn't get any error messages when I formatted with FAT32. However, it took longer than usual. I also used the partition function from the WIndows XP CD, deleted, created and then formatted. It still didn't work. It's weird that it only works with quick formatting. I checked the BIOS as you suggested and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for replying |
