The Savage Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I recently installed Linux slackware 9 on one of my hdd's (Western Digital 120GB 8MB). After a week or so i got bored with it and tryed to install WindowsXP Pro again... The windows setup was unable to create a suitable partition for xp.So I tried Fdisk, it was also unable to create ANY partition (tryed low-level format several times).Eventualy Partition Magic 8 was able to create a new NTFS partition and solved several of the partition table problems, but still I can't have windows boot from that drive I've tried anything I could come up with... anyone any ideas ?(Tryed Fdisk,PM8,DriveSpace,Defragmentation,Scandisk,WinXP recovery)All I can think of is that the zero track has been corrupted... perhaps a result of LiLo and WinBoot getting mixed up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazin Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I installed Linux a year ago and enjoyed it for three months. Due to the lack of support by its Office-like apps, I formatted its partition.I booted to WinXP desktop, ran PM, deleted the ext partition, then formatted it as FAT32.The partition was restored again without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jotnar Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Look around for Bcwipe, it should be a free download. Part of the package is bcwipepd.exe. Put this program on a dos boot disk and run bcwipepd ito determine what disk number your hard disk is (usually 0). Then runbcwipepd w -d0and let it run to at least 1%. That should wipe out the mbr and partition table completely. Its brought at least a couple of disks back from the dead for me.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Get this nifty FREEWARE:RANISH PARTITION MANAGERhttp://www.ranish.com/part/READ THE INSTRUCTIONSUSE ITPROBLEM SOLVED(please note that Powerquest Partition Manager, in a few occasions, deals with partitions in non-standard ways, so, even if all works with it, double check the settings of the partitions with Ranish's)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Get this nifty FREEWARE:RANISH PARTITION MANAGERhttp://www.ranish.com/part/Which version works best for you? Do beta versions work fine?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Well, Ranish likes to play it safe, he had for something like one year version 2.38 Beta, then he just renamed it to 2.40 stable.I have used both 2.40 and 2.43 beta with no problems whatsoever, actually the only (I think) difference, it is the number of partitions:Version 2.37: can help you have 30 primary partitions but does notwork with disks having a capacity greater than 8GB.Version 2.40: can work with disks > 8GB but does not support more than4 primary partitions (this is same as version 2.38 but just the version numbergot changed)Version 2.43: can work with disks > 8GB; also, it can support up to30 primary partitions.As I would never want to have more than 4 Primary Partitions, I stay on 2.40.Never tested 2.44 BETA-BETA-BETAjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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