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"Keyan Farlander" wrote in message ...
The Overlay that you have installed on that second drive, might be causing problems, my suggestion is to use a boot disk with fdisk on it, and when it boots, switch to the big hard drive, and run this command fdisk /mbr. that will erase the master boot record and get rid of the overlay, then xp more than likely can find it, and the bios might be able to as well. I'm confused: Charles though I should reinstall the overlay software, you think I need to wipe it out. Which is it? I'm not trying to be snotty, I truly don't know, this whole overlay thing mystifies me. Your thoughts did, however, inspire me to check the MS Knowledge Base--and gave me good ideas about what to search for. "Problems with Drive Overlay Programs in Windows XP" (article 315679)says NOT to run fdisk /mbr: I may wipe out my data. It also says that the problems I'm experiencing are "by design". Thanks, Bill. Microsoft suggests I back up my data and reformat my hard disk. Yeah, right. Thanks again, Bill. So running fdisk is out. And I can't run the overlay software again, I don't seem to have a copy of it and Hitachi (which took over IBM's hard drive business) says it's not needed under XP, so they don't have it at their web site. Sigh. |
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On 25 Sep 2003 17:45:34 -0700, (FitPhillyGuy)
wrote: "Keyan Farlander" wrote in message ... The Overlay that you have installed on that second drive, might be causing problems, my suggestion is to use a boot disk with fdisk on it, and when it boots, switch to the big hard drive, and run this command fdisk /mbr. that will erase the master boot record and get rid of the overlay, then xp more than likely can find it, and the bios might be able to as well. I'm confused: Charles though I should reinstall the overlay software, you think I need to wipe it out. Which is it? I'm not trying to be snotty, I truly don't know, this whole overlay thing mystifies me. Your new system does not need, should not use the overlay. The same software that installed the overlay (or the equivalent newer version of it) offered by IBM should also remove it. Of course I'd expect any data on the drive to be gone after removing the overlay if it was the boot drive (and so it was loading that overlay). Your thoughts did, however, inspire me to check the MS Knowledge Base--and gave me good ideas about what to search for. "Problems with Drive Overlay Programs in Windows XP" (article 315679)says NOT to run fdisk /mbr: I may wipe out my data. It also says that the problems I'm experiencing are "by design". Thanks, Bill. Microsoft suggests I back up my data and reformat my hard disk. Yeah, right. Thanks again, Bill. So running fdisk is out. If the drive has the overlay, you need to backup the data first, then remove overlay, partition and format... this is the kind of situation that causes many people to recommend avoiding the overlay in favor of a motherboard BIOS update (when applicable) or a PCI IDE controller card. And I can't run the overlay software again, I don't seem to have a copy of it and Hitachi (which took over IBM's hard drive business) says it's not needed under XP, so they don't have it at their web site. Sigh. It's just not linked there, but see here, they worked just a moment ago when I downloaded 'em: http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html Dave |
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