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Old April 4th, 2006, 07:43 PM

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I grabbed the Setup.exe file and the I386 folder from the recovery disk, then burned them to a writable CD. I then ran the setup.exe file and tried to reinstall windows via this method. However, this was when I ran into the problem of the windows intstaller not allowing me to delete the main partition. I also couldn't find a way to delete the partition through other methods.

It then hit me that the recovery disk formatted the drive before reinstalling windows. So, I started the reinstallation process using the recovery CD, allowed it to begin its formatting process then ejected that CD. It didn't like that too much, but then I inserted the burned disk with the setup information on it, and it allowed me to continue. The formatting process had completed and now is allowing me to delete the one huge partition and create the smaller ones I had desired in the first place. That's where I'm sitting right now.

I'm wondering what the ideal number of partitions and partition sizes would be, considering the fact that my hard drive is 189 GB, I have lots of games and other files (music, pictures, etc.) that should probably be put on a separate partition.

Once again, my heartfelt thanks to all who have helped me with my massive screwup. It has been invaluable. I think I'm finally getting to where I need to be.
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Old April 4th, 2006, 07:59 PM
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I’d go with 40 on c: (system) and then make three more of equal size. Two for files, music, and such and the last one to hold those images that you are going to make as backups from now on.

Seriously, when you get done, get Ghost or something else that does the same thing and make a restore image. You can create one that spans several cd’s if needed and keep it as a master. They have a shelf life of at least 2 years if stored in a cool dry place. For working backups, just write them to the last partition. Compress them as much as you can and keep at least two. That gives you two points to restore from just incase you end up backing up something that you would like to be rid of.
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Old April 6th, 2006, 03:35 AM

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I have another massive problem I hope someone can help me with...it seems I have horrible luck recently.

OK, so here's the deal. I was playing a game tonight, when suddenly it crashed on me. Little dialogue popped up saying the usual "Do you want to report this to Microsoft?" thingy. I clicked "Don't Send" as I always do. Now comes the strange part. My computer then spontaneously rebooted. Only it won't boot up anymore. It gets to the stage where it says "Loading IDE Drives..." or "Detecting IDE Drives..." or something like that, and then it just hangs there. Nothing I can think of will snap it out of this. I need some serious help here if anyone can give it to me, this is not good at all. Computers hate me!
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It would seem that you have some additional problems. The system should not have rebooted from a game crashing. Lock up yes, blur screen yes, reboot no. The game is approved for xp, and not an old game that happens to run on it? It could also be related to your PSU problem, or it could be an issue with another part getting ready to die. Is it still under warrantee? If so you might want to pack it back to where you bought it and let them have a look. IIRC, that is the brand that London Drugs carries?

The system not being able to find the drives is not good. Seldom do the cd and hard drive roll over at the same moment. You might take a look and see if they have anything in common, like being on the same power lead, or the same ribbon cable. Check to make sure a jumper didn’t fall off. Then you might pull the power from the cd and see if it will boot. If not then plug is back in and unplug the hard drive, put a bootable disk in the cd and try to boot it again.

You can check the PSU with a VOM, just turn the system on and pin it out.

The last thing that comes to mind is, if the cd reader and the hard drive are on the same ribbon cable, and the board has two IDE controllers, switch it to the other controller.

That’s all I can think of at this time……
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For what it's worth, I occasionally have lock-ups that force a hard reboot, but I cannot detect my CD/Harddrives or enter the Bios after these sorts of crash. I simply have to shut down the computer and restart it to go back to normal.

I'm not quite sure why it is so, though I have my own idea. One of these days, I guess I'll have to open up the case and try to take care of it... but I'm not really on speaking terms with the hardware part of a computer.
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Before anything else, a correction:

After I wrote my post last night, something changed. While I was writing, the screen changed to display this:

NVIDIA RAID IDE BIO 4.76
Copyright (C) 2004 NVIDIA Corp.

Detecting array...

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not.

Thermo: The game is XP approved, not an old game. Yep, Certified Data is the brand London Drugs carries, I was considering taking it to them (yup it's on warranty) and saying "fix it!". But that would mean being without it for quite some time, so I was leaving that as a last resort.

I'll try what you mentioned with the power leads and ribbon cables, though checking the jumpers isn't really an option until I do some research on them since I have little knowledge about them.

You mentioned I can check the PSU with a VOM...by VOM do you mean Voltage Meter?

Thanks for your help, I hope I can fix this problem...
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