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Tuesday August 20th 2002 03:05 AM PST

Damn, i am up again. It's only 3 AM and i am finally done with my shit. I feel like shit cause i left Will hanging tonight in the middle of a windows XP install. He's having some trouble with his 20GB hard drive. I had him build a boot disk, do the normal FDisk shit and get the drive all ready. Then the XP installer just says the drive is corrupt and can't do anything about it. I have no fuckin idea what's up. I should just stick to the OS's that i really know well, but Will needed my help. So.... i guess this is a cry for help to all the people out there. Does anybody have any idea what might be going wrong. BTW Will has used both FDisk and the XP installer to create the partitions. in both cases it didn't fuckin help. I gotta go to bed. I really hate going to sleep thinking about Windoze installs. It just makes all your dreams come out like shit.

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Dude, don't feel bad, believe me I appreciate the help :-) I'll figure it out eventually. If I'm mad at anyone, its Bill Gates, trust me lol

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The disk might actually really be fucked up. It's only 20 gig, toss it and grab a new drive to install the OS on. You can always keep the 20 gig and use it for storage if it's salvagable, but i wouldn't put an OS on a drive that's acting funky.

Posted by: brian

I'm planning on getting a new computer in the next few months anyway, and I never put anything on my PC that is of any importance to me (odd as that may be), so I won't care if it totally craps out. I actually found something online that says that I should disable UDMA because the VIA chipset has a problem with NT and XP environments when UDMA is enabled (its ok to re-enable it after installation though). I'll try that, and if it doesn't work, then oh well, but my drive was acting fine with Win 98 on it, and its only about 8 months old and never been out of my computer, so I'm hoping its not damaged at all. FDisk said it found no bad clusters :-)

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Try blasting the MBR of the disk, that will prolly fix the problem. Just a thought.... I'd give you tips on doing that but ummm... its been while since I did it...

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