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Cman
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_ 		15. September 2005 @ 18:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok, I'm a Western Digital guy for the most part but Staples had a heckuva deal on Maxtor 200GB HD's so I bought 3. ($80 each out the door). My rig now consists of 4-200GB Maxtors. I upgraded the PSU to 600W. My problem occurs with PartitionMagic 8.0 (Not the Norton version). My Windows XP Partition is 50GB and its extended partition is 143GB roughly. I used the provided Maxtor software to partition the HD's. Once I get past loading WinXP SP2, I started to get an error100 (partition table bad) when I try to use PM 8.0. Going into disk management, every partition shows fine and so far, no operational issues. Is this some abberation of the PM8.0 sw? My formatting of course is NTFS on all drives. Can anyone recommend better disc partitioning software? Where am I making that wrong turn during partitioning? Lastly, is there a size limit of a WinXP SP2 partition?
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sagara
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_ 		16. September 2005 @ 09:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i just used the windows installer disk to partition my hard drives. it works fine imo. my windows partition is only 45gb and the other is 65gb well close to those numbers. of course,the computer only reads 111 out of it's 120
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