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Recent content by sampsononline
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win2000 drive recognition and boot problem.
Well this is cool. It turns out I have done everything prescribed. I flashed the bios with the latest version, I had to use the maxtor boot disk to partition the drive then I used the 4 win2k boot disks and ended up getting win2k installed.. all is good in that respect. I have also already...- sampsononline
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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win2000 drive recognition and boot problem.
This is going to sound complicated, but here goes.. A while ago I tried to switch the hard drive to the "dynamic disk system". After that I couldn't get into my drive. As part of the solution to fix it and get back in, I had to disable ez-bios.. Anyways, now when I try to get into my...- sampsononline
- Post #6
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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win2000 drive recognition and boot problem.
it's NTFS. maybe there is no command prompt I can work from then? perhaps the one I was on before was a virtual prompt? any ideas? I have tried anything you mentioned. still no go. I am having no joy here, somebody help!- sampsononline
- Post #3
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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win2000 drive recognition and boot problem.
Please help if you can. I have a system running win2k. The hard drive was installed using the "maxtor" disk which for some reason made a small dos partition before allowing me to install win2000 on the rest of the drive. because of this i have always had certain problems with drive...- sampsononline
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
