desmondelliott

Being a member of a release group, it is standard for us to release our **** in one compression format. *.ace*, i don't know why we do this, but we just do. It seems to be a standard sort of thing It might not have been a group as such that released OfficeXP RTM, but we are sure pissed off that we didn't get our hands on it first.

Hi, this is my first post to the board. Help! I installing Windows2000 Pro and then for some reason my hdd crashed completeley and if it is connecting to the computer and is set to be recognised by the BIOS it stalls the pc on boot. Although if i dont set the bios to recognise it, win98se on my 2nd hdd will recongise it. I tried and thought successfully deleted the NTFS partition in win98se using fdisk and deleted the non-dos partition. I don't know what to do at all. What is wrong with my hard drive? - Des

Both drives are set to master. But they are run separatley. One is on IDE 0(primrary master) and one is on IDE 1(secondary master).

farphle: that might work if i could get the drive to boot what so ever at all. I cannot even get the system to boot with the Seagate drive only connected to the system. Any idea's as to this problem?

What i've done now is completley abandoned Windows 2000. I'm running Win98SE on my other hard-drive. Without using windows 2000, how can i get my hard drive back to full functionality?

quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And, the Win9x fdisk can delete NTFS [and Linux, and BSD] partitions. It can't read/write to them, but it sure as heck can delete them. A partition table is a partition table is a partition table, it's all the same.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that's what i was trying to say it can delete the partitions. I went to Maxtor's website and downloaded the program llfutil.exe and again disabled the drive in the bios and the llfutil program Maxllf still managed to recognise the drive and i performed a Low Level on the drive using LBA mode as my drive is >504MB. This said that it had completed the low level successfuly. I then tried to run Seagate's Diskmanager 9.53 (which i downloaded from their website) and install the hardrive it using the Easy Installation option. It got to the FAST FORMATING disk section of this and then it crashed with a 'divide error'. Anybody got any ideas? Another point of note. If i set the hard drive to be recongised by the BIOS whichever condition it is in - Low Level or whatever it always stalls the system. I have even tried the Win98SE startup disk and it stalls this before it says "Starting Windows 98". I also tried the Win2KPro Startup disk which it stalls. Note that on both occasions the floppy drive reads the disk a few times then it just stops and the floppy drive light is left on and i need to use the reset button to reset the computer. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work. The BIOS is a Intel AL440LX with the latest Pheonix BIOS downloaded and flash upgraded from Intel's webstie. Des

yes, it does. when i ran fdisk in win98se it asked me if i wanted to enable ntfs file system support or something to that effect. will try the maxtor llf program.