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freptide · 06-25-2005, 09:12 AM

I got it to work the long way. I chose extended part. at the beginning. It the n failed format. Put it in my Amd and installed xp then put it back into enclosure and chose Primary partition. This time I had a fan blasting air on it since the Bytecc gets hot. The windows disk management makes it easy to partition. I have exactly 186.31 GB. I wonder what they give you for a 160 GB? Its nice and quiet. I only use Western Digital. I had an IBM drive that was getting loud and eventually failed awhile back.

Btw I did use the format option in Admin tools. How else can it set up for NTFS? ALso when I tried to install on my AMD i could only see 136 or less. My intel 850 did see the 186 GB like Glc said. Im still using SP1 since they tend to load more junk with each Sevice pack. The 200GB WD w/ 8mb cache is a great drive!!

06-25-2005, 09:12 AM	#8
freptide Member (9 bit) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: R I [;l, Posts: 323	I got it to work the long way. I chose extended part. at the beginning. It the n failed format. Put it in my Amd and installed xp then put it back into enclosure and chose Primary partition. This time I had a fan blasting air on it since the Bytecc gets hot. The windows disk management makes it easy to partition. I have exactly 186.31 GB. I wonder what they give you for a 160 GB? Its nice and quiet. I only use Western Digital. I had an IBM drive that was getting loud and eventually failed awhile back. Btw I did use the format option in Admin tools. How else can it set up for NTFS? ALso when I tried to install on my AMD i could only see 136 or less. My intel 850 did see the 186 GB like Glc said. Im still using SP1 since they tend to load more junk with each Sevice pack. The 200GB WD w/ 8mb cache is a great drive!! Last edited by freptide; 06-25-2005 at 09:17 AM.