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I am building a new coputer for the first time. Everything was going ok until I started to install XP pro. When I am asked to create a partition I hit C and nothing happens. It's still unpartitioned space. i have checked my jumpers and the HD is set to cable select. Can any please help me?
Explain the logic you're using in having chosen to set the jumper to cable select.
I would have thought you'd find "master" to be the obvious choice during a system install.
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I agree...set it as master and try it.
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>>I am building a new coputer for the first time. Everything was going ok until I started to install XP pro. When I am asked to create a partition I hit C and nothing happens. It's still unpartitioned space. i have checked my jumpers and the HD is set to cable select. Can any please help me?
Patrick,
one harddrive- set jumper to "single".
two harddrives- set one to "master", other to "slave".
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"two harddrives- set one to "master", other to "slave"."
Set the one that you want to put the windows installation on to master.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939
1 GIG PC3200 DDR RAM
2x120 GIG 7200PRM HD's SATA/RAID 0
PNY Nvidia 6800 128MB
Lite-On DVD+-RW DL
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Here is an article about Cable Select:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS-c.html
It appears that you should be using a special cable, and not the standard IDE/ATA cable.
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thanks for all the reponses, but I also tried the jumper setting for master, cable select and slave. i tried every setting for troubleshooting purposes and still nothing. I came to the conclusion that it wasn't the jumper setting.
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I use WD HDD's with an 80 wire ribbon and do not use any jumpers with a single drive. I dont think that is your problem, what size drive are you installig?
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>>thanks for all the reponses, but I also tried the jumper setting for master, cable select and slave. i tried every setting for troubleshooting purposes and still nothing. I came to the conclusion that it wasn't the jumper setting.
Patrick,
Try booting from a W9x startup floppy disk.
At the A: prompt type ---> fdisk
Select option #3 to view partitions.
If any partitions exist on the harddrive, delete them. Exit fdisk, remove floppy, reboot from XP CD and try creating partition (suggest NTFS) again.
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Argh, that makes it harder.
For an IDE, make sure everything's secure (of course), and create a 32 GB partition for Windows. Don't know if this actually makes a difference, but...
XP before SP2 will only recognize hard drives that are 120 GB and change. You might have to set it to only use 120 GB until you get SP2 if you don't have it (and if you can).
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>>300 gig HD
Patrick,
Best to check manufacturers/vendors website for hardware/software requirements and/or compatibility issues BEFORE making the purchase to avoid these types of surprises.IMO creating at least 2 partitions, 1 5-10gb for OS, other(s) for data, makes maintenance easier, especially on very large drives.
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Doesn't the hard drive come with software to partition and format it? If you don't have sp1 or later you should use the manufacturers software.
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