RE: Did I miss something?

["Free" <free@xxxxxxxx>]

I use Partition Magic all the time to copy and move partitions (FAT, FAT32,
NTFS) without any of the problems your are seeing.  I copy boot partitions
from drive to drive and resize, moving between IDE and SCSI, etc, etc.  No
such problems.  Sounds more like a hardware conflict than a SW problem to
me.  Even though you have it jumpered correctly, I would double check that,
perhaps moving it to the primary on the secondary IDE channel.  Good luck.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:26 PM
To:	OMEGA-LIST
Subject:	Did I miss something?


Hello List -

I need your help and experience.
Did anyone experienced such stuff and got away?

I have 2 HDs.
One is slave with data and Win95.  Its jumpers on slave position and
it hooked to the ribbon cable at slave plug (second plug).  The other
is brand new HD Seagate ATA 60Gb 7200.
I spent entire ten hours on partitioning my new HD 60Gb.
I tried to partition/formatting as a single 2Gb partition and as a
single
60Gb.
I tried to partition/formatting as multiple 2Gb partitions.
I tried to partition/formatting as FAT, as FAT32 and as NTFS.
I tried to partition/formatting with "Partition Magic 6.0", with
"Partition Commander 6.0" and with Win2k.
I checked Win2k to accept existing formatting and to delete, create
and format partition itself.
I did ALL POSSIBLE VARIANTS AND COMBINATIONS.

Win2k setup does accept no "foreign" not its own formatting.
I got all the time the same message from Win2k:  << Setup has
determined that C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. Setup
cannot continue.>>

I believe that "Partition Magic 6.0" and "Partition Commander 6.0"
would find bad sector or would identify HD as a bad drive as well.
They read and accepted each other's partitioning and formatting. They
are sophisticated programs and they did not detect a single bad thing
on HD.

Wow!  Did I miss something?  Where is the dog buried?!

Thanks in advance.
Val