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Very interesting. Thanks, I will look at it.
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Free" <free@xxxxxxxx>
To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: RE: Did I miss something?
> I use Partition Magic all the time to copy and move partitions (FAT,
FAT32,
> NTFS) without any of the problems your are seeing. I copy boot
partitions
> from drive to drive and resize, moving between IDE and SCSI, etc,
etc. No
> such problems. Sounds more like a hardware conflict than a SW
problem to
> me. Even though you have it jumpered correctly, I would double
check that,
> perhaps moving it to the primary on the secondary IDE channel. Good
luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:26 PM
> To: OMEGA-LIST
> Subject: Did I miss something?
>
>
> Hello List -
>
> I need your help and experience.
> Did anyone experienced such stuff and got away?
>
> I have 2 HDs.
> One is slave with data and Win95. Its jumpers on slave position and
> it hooked to the ribbon cable at slave plug (second plug). The
other
> is brand new HD Seagate ATA 60Gb 7200.
> I spent entire ten hours on partitioning my new HD 60Gb.
> I tried to partition/formatting as a single 2Gb partition and as a
> single
> 60Gb.
> I tried to partition/formatting as multiple 2Gb partitions.
> I tried to partition/formatting as FAT, as FAT32 and as NTFS.
> I tried to partition/formatting with "Partition Magic 6.0", with
> "Partition Commander 6.0" and with Win2k.
> I checked Win2k to accept existing formatting and to delete, create
> and format partition itself.
> I did ALL POSSIBLE VARIANTS AND COMBINATIONS.
>
> Win2k setup does accept no "foreign" not its own formatting.
> I got all the time the same message from Win2k: << Setup has
> determined that C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. Setup
> cannot continue.>>
>
> I believe that "Partition Magic 6.0" and "Partition Commander 6.0"
> would find bad sector or would identify HD as a bad drive as well.
> They read and accepted each other's partitioning and formatting.
They
> are sophisticated programs and they did not detect a single bad
thing
> on HD.
>
> Wow! Did I miss something? Where is the dog buried?!
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Val
>
>
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