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180gig woooess :-( help

  • 13-06-2003 8:56pm
    #1
    GUI_XP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭


    lads..
    180gig drive..
    think partition was 176gigs.. (NTFS)

    working no probs
    had about over 100gigs on it..
    started copying about 20gigs today

    and started getting messages in dialog box form from win2k saying
    directory or file was corrupt or did not exist..

    tried more files and everyone was the same..

    anyways..
    reboot machine
    go back into windows ,drive doesnt exist anymore

    when back into bios,bios sees it no probs and recognises it past POST
    back into windows
    check in disk management
    windows sees drive
    but 176gigs free!
    you know it needs to be reformatted for windows to see it again as a drive.


    i know there are issues with partitions are a certain size..

    can ppl with experiences tell me waht to do?
    cheers
    Derm


Comments

  • #2
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭tech


    Had a very similar issue while using Windows 2000, If you apply SP3 this should fix your problem... Let us know how you get on


  • #3
    tribble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    AMD machine?
    Have a look through the other threads/ forums for similar problems.

    tribble


  • #4
    conZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭conZ


    ehe... Looks like your gonna have to put all those films, apps and mp3's on one by one again :)


  • #5
    Col_Loki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Col_Loki


    Hey its aparently a regular prob with amd mobo's , details of how other people fixed it Here . Hope this helps a bit !!


  • #6
    GUI_XP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭GUI_XP


    problem seems to be cant have drive over 137gigs on an
    athlon chipset..

    need seperate ide controller

    pci udma 133 controller!


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