fuxin’ machine
Well, I am officially pissed off mith my pc at the moment. 3 reinstalls yesterday, countless hardware reconfigurations, lots of swearing, and a few beers later, I have myself sitting and watching a dodgy dos style screen erasing my disks.
In an effort to figure out why my drives are not performing anywhere as well as they should, I have removed all suspiscious devices (SCSI Cards, etc), reseated cards in different slots, disabled the onboard raid controller to get the machine to the exact same specs to Steve’s machine (which is virtually identical ‘cept he has no RAID controller on his Abit KT7A board).
After removing the 2 40Gb drives from the RAID-0 set, it seems the disks have corrupted information on them and no 3rd party disk formatting or partitioning utility can erase or read the data.
So, back to the ‘Dos screens’, I have been sitting and waiting patiently for the damn thing to finish ‘erasing’ my disk so I can start a fresh. One drive took all night to complete, and I kicked off the last one just before I left for work this morning.
I hope it fixes the screwed partitioning information. Win2k wasn’t happy at all displaying the drives as ‘Unknown or Damaged partitions’. The amusing part was the fact that the first drive was registering as being a 460Gb drive… if only eh?
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