Hi All, Thanks for your valuable inputs. I was finally able to partition my existing hard drive. I had a 15 Gb Hard drive. Having C;(5GB) and D:(10Gb). The c:...
send an RPM print out. Part /? tells how (assumes part.exe is the executable) On a point of ethiquette - you seem to be making your post part of a thread that...
Thanks for your kind help. I've been using RPM simulator and reading quite a lot about partitioning and multibooting to have a better understanding of what ...
... Assuming your license is OK to do it, just connect to Internet and let things work their way: if it ever need to activate, WPA will connect at home (MS)...
I've been playing with RPM 2.43 on a 160 Gb HD and encountered the following issues about which I'm scratching my head: 1) After installing RPM, creating...
... I have learnt some years ago, to my cost, that acepting such offers of help can prove hazardous to your health. My current mode of operation which has...
Hi, I have been a happy user of RPM over 4 yrs. on a Seagate 20G HD (7200rpm).There is a loose pin at the back of HD.Due to power supply probs., i was keeping...
ED: The change in heads per cylinder is from the BIOS. Every system BIOS that supports drives over 504MB in size performs sector translation, usually when...
... sector ... the BIOS ... modern HDDs ... units. The ... cylinder ... values. ... or AMI) ... on ... & LBA ... limit their ... effect on ... using 255. ... ...
Hello guru's, This may not be a partman question per se, but I do believe it to be an issue with my partition table that partman may be able to fix. My 40GB...
Doc Chiron here: I see that you are the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You didn't evaluate the existing multi-boot procedure to know what you were throwing away with...
Hi, The setting in Bios is on LBA with master setting on jumper(even RPM shows it as LBA on top).Rescanned the ide drives in Bios.No change. Partinfo(part....
... For "another boot file" read NTDETECT.COM. ... If NTLDR had been running the show then the boot files would have been on C and should still be there. Try...
... Yep. ... Nope. ... No. ... For 2: because it is an extended "partition", in fact a container, so it is not bootable (does not contain any file to execute)....
... Antoine Won't that be the other way around? i.e. C will have NTLDR and its mates and will be known as SYSTEM (in Microsoft speak) and D will be BOOT and...
orig msg: "...One day,when i was messing around in RPM(deleting andformatting), i found that the cylinder nos.(in RPM window) had changed from 255 to 240. In...
Doc Chiron here: First: Dermot, your bootable floppy (DOS) is incapable of seeing, let alone writing to, an NTFS partition without aftermarket support. Second:...
... One way to prove this is to create a Bart's PE Builder CD and boot from it. See http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ It should then be posible to view the contents...
Hi Dermot, ... [...] ... I believe not. ... Let's see. The partition I advise to create will be \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 (with NTLDR), and the existing...
... Doc, That bootable floppy won't be bootable courtesy of DOS. It ain't a true "boot" disk, though it will boot the PC. What happens is if the floppy is...
... Well, in fact it was more or less my idea. ;-) ... Yes. But it boils down it does not matter much to express it as you did. What is happening is that there...
... Thanks, Antoine, very informative, as usual. Mind you, the way "bootstrap" is used these days to refer to such things as: 1) one of the roles of the BIOS ...
Slight correction: Antoine: As it stands, soleil_deity's Windows setup has the C: letter aliased to the Windows partition. Dermot: Are you sure? Seeing as how...
Antoine, for the purposes of this can we assume that what has happened is that he had a dual boot and that he deleted C, the partition containing the boot...
Hello, How can i force RPM to forget its internal partition table of a particular disk and simply reread the partition table from the MBR and accept is as is? ...
Hi, I put the 8.4G HD as a slave on someone's pc(also having RPM) - 815 chipset MB.The 20G(5000rpm Seagate)HD of this PC(master) shows normal 255 heads. Bios...
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