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Postby njmac » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:46 pm

fantastic mate. i'll investigate that and try to get hold of a copy of BartPE.
very much appreciated
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Postby pcbbc » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:22 am

My thanks to Neil for jumping in on this thread.

Neil tells me you are trying to install Windows on a spare HDD, and running into problems with the formatting at 52%.
Are you able to tell us what size the disk is?

A shot in the dark, but 137GB is the limit for 28 bit LBA addressing used by older PC BIOSes, which just happens to be roughly 52% of a 250GB drive.

Workarounds would be to try reducing the partition size if you can, or set the CAP LIMIT jumper to limit the drive size to 37GB.
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Postby njmac » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:24 am

quick update - turns out the spare hard drive had a problem (was just an old 40Gb) and wouldn't get past the 52% so I rescued the essential info using a caddy and just wiped the original hard drive and reinstalled the o/s. I don't know exactly what I did but I know i'll be using a caddy next time I attept a backup.

cheers for all the help
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