XP can't find hard drives to install

"andy" wrote in message
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This is always the case when formatting (have
never bothered to find out why! it is probably
the disk cache area) and as long as the two
drives are the same overall size it will not
affect RAID.

Please to know you are up and running.

"AKA gray asphalt" wrote
in message
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Andy,
Do you have any idea why a hard disk would not
let the entire thing be partitioned? One drive
is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as unallocated
so the drives are different sizes. I wonder if
this will stop a mirror drive from working. I
guess it has to do with something I did with
Drive Image or Partition Magic.

"andy" wrote in
message
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I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL
family try this page for the drivers...

http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm

Under RAID driver see the first download
(unless you are running XP 64bit then it will
be the last in that section). Load it onto a
floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the
setup.


"AKA gray asphalt"
wrote in message
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Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo

I erased the partition that was taking up all but
8 megs of the hard drive and partitioned the 8
megs and then resized it to the entire hard drive
size and the 8 meg unused space was gone. I did
this because XP and Partition Magic gave error
messages when trying to format the larger area.
The whole drive partioned and formatted fine after
the above.

Andy, there is some kind of message about a
partition being beyond the boundary or inside of a
boundary that might make in unbootable. I think
the boundary is about 8 megs. Have you ever run
across that?

The 8mb is the onboard cache of the hard drive.

"AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message
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"andy" wrote in message
...
This is always the case when formatting (have never bothered to find out
why! it is probably the disk cache area) and as long as the two drives
are the same overall size it will not affect RAID.

Please to know you are up and running.

"AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message
news:uWVAf.13219$JT.4040@fed1read06...

Andy,
Do you have any idea why a hard disk would not let the entire thing be
partitioned? One drive is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as unallocated so
the drives are different sizes. I wonder if this will stop a mirror
drive from working. I guess it has to do with something I did with Drive
Image or Partition Magic.

"andy" wrote in message
...
I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for
the drivers...

http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm

Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP
64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy
and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup.


"AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message
news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06...

Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo

I erased the partition that was taking up all but 8 megs of the hard drive
and partitioned the 8 megs and then resized it to the entire hard drive
size and the 8 meg unused space was gone. I did this because XP and
Partition Magic gave error messages when trying to format the larger area.
The whole drive partioned and formatted fine after the above.

Andy, there is some kind of message about a partition being beyond the
boundary or inside of a boundary that might make in unbootable. I think
the boundary is about 8 megs. Have you ever run across that?

"Falco" wrote in message
...
The 8mb is the onboard cache of the hard drive.

"AKA gray asphalt" wrote
in message
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"andy" wrote in
message
...
This is always the case when formatting (have
never bothered to find out why! it is probably
the disk cache area) and as long as the two
drives are the same overall size it will not
affect RAID.

Please to know you are up and running.

"AKA gray asphalt"
wrote in message
news:uWVAf.13219$JT.4040@fed1read06...

Andy,
Do you have any idea why a hard disk would
not let the entire thing be partitioned? One
drive is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as
unallocated so the drives are different
sizes. I wonder if this will stop a mirror
drive from working. I guess it has to do with
something I did with Drive Image or Partition
Magic.

"andy" wrote in
message
...
I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL
family try this page for the drivers...

http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm

Under RAID driver see the first download
(unless you are running XP 64bit then it
will be the last in that section). Load it
onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early
in the setup.


"AKA gray asphalt"
wrote in message
news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06...

Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo

I erased the partition that was taking up all
but 8 megs of the hard drive and partitioned
the 8 megs and then resized it to the entire
hard drive size and the 8 meg unused space was
gone. I did this because XP and Partition Magic
gave error messages when trying to format the
larger area. The whole drive partioned and
formatted fine after the above.

Andy, there is some kind of message about a
partition being beyond the boundary or inside
of a boundary that might make in unbootable. I
think the boundary is about 8 megs. Have you
ever run across that?

I think the cache is supposed to be RAM and some
drives don't have the 8M, unallocated.