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pctech4u wrote on 12/12/2002, 10:50 PM
I have PartionMagic and it worked on a machine that I had that problem, I'm not sure what the problem was but that fixed it and they have had no other problems.

pctech4u
jboy wrote on 12/13/2002, 3:18 PM
Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.
jboy wrote on 12/13/2002, 4:45 PM
Didn't work. Got a ways into it, then the computer froze up. When I rebooted, the drive was unformatted, so I rt. clked on "yes" and it's happening now. It's gonna take a few hours to see if it works. The last time I tried this, (where it didn't immediately give me an "unable to complete format" window, it took 2-3 hours, then I got the window at the end. Keeping my fingers crossed. Maybe it'll work this time..
jboy wrote on 12/13/2002, 9:20 PM
Didn't work, plus now I must have really screwed things up, cuz I cant get the machine to boot into windows,it just hangs at the screen. When I tried to set up an array in the Highpoint RAID bios, it said that one of the drives on the array was the BOOT drive, and the other one is listed as hidden, and that there weren't enough drives to form an array. Dont know whats going on.Pulled the plug on my C: drive, went into FDISK and partitioned and formatted the array, choosing not to make the drive bootable, before obtaining this result. Does anybody know the general routine for setting up an array ? Should the drives be partitioned and formatted together while connected to the array, or should they be partitioned and formatted individually on a standard IDE connection. I also notice the RAID bios gives me the option of choosing the cluster size-I chose 512K, dimly recalling this was the cluster size of NTSF. Was this a wrong thing to do ? BTW, I've tried to find this info on the web, but no luck. You'd think the manufacturers of these devices would put tutorials on their website, I haven't found any. If someone could steer me to a helpful link, I'd be most grateful...
JJKizak wrote on 12/14/2002, 8:10 AM
Check the previous thread on this forum that says "Win2K allocation 512 or 4096?"
Its about 40 back from this one.
James J. Kizak
jboy wrote on 12/14/2002, 9:32 PM
Fixed it. Did a clean re-install and it solved the problem.