1210.31 GB of HARD DRIVE Space????

[CraxySerge]

Windows XP is quite an OS. After installing Easy CD Creator 5, at startup i got a blue screen, telling me to restart in safe mode. So I do it, still get a blue screen in safemode, cant do $hit. Must re-install Windows XP. Ok I re-install it on my 60 GB Hard drive which is partitioned into 2 parts, 20 GB for Windows and other software, and the rest for downloaded stuff and ALOT of Mp3's and Simpsons, Family guy, and Futurama episodes. After the install I went on my D: (second half of HD) To install all the newest drivers i downloaded, but windows is telling me that its unformatted. I freak out for a bit. About 30 Gigs of stuff gone. So i get Partition Magic 7.0 Pro to try and maybe solve this error, but it cant even start, gives me invalid drive letter error. So I thought What the H.ell, I'll just reformat the drive. So i did it using the Drive Management Program. At 90% I get an error, disk management closes it self. I open it and lo and behold I get over 1000 of Gigs of space. Pretty crazy stuff. It wont delete for some reason. Looks like re-format the whole harddrive again. Any one any clue as to what have caused this? This was Freshly Installed of the original retail CD. I attached a screenshot of disk management, its really huge, dont know how it will show up in the forums. AS you can see from the picture i have some pretty crazy numbers. Actually the picture was way too big for the forums so i posted it on my webpage.

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Check it out.

[pacino]

Is it ok if you kill your partitions now? .. I'll tell you an easy way to fix this.. Boot with any win98 boot disk.. type fdisk /mbr .. then fdisk and kill all partitions you see.. Then boot back with your XP CD, make sure your bios is set to boot from CD.. partition your first 20GB or 30GB onlyby clicking "C" .. format with NTFS then your done.. once booted in XP, right-click on my computer, Manage and Disk management.. and create a new partition on the rest of your HD, format and assing a drive letter.. DONE! .. as of easy CD creator issue, make sure you use version 5.0+ and apply the patches from roxio.com before rebooting, Also apply MS CD burner XP patch from windowsupate website... Good LUCK!

[AMD'er]

the best thing to do is get rid of Easy CD creator. XP really doesn't like it and you have to go through so much to get it working properly. The same thing happend to me the first time I tried to install Easy CD creator and I had the Plat. Version. So I just stick with Nero.

If you are running XP Pro it should have given you the option to "Boot back to the best know config" or something like that where it told you to boot into safe mode.

[Cooler666]

Windows XP is not the problem, Easy CD Creator 5 is, this is the worst program ever, nearly everyone have to format their computer after installing it. Easy CD Creator just destroys the whole windows partition, get Nero and you won't have any problems plus its a much better program.

[MoPMatrix]

DOH! i just installed EZ CD 5 on my good machine the other day!
Hope it dosen't mess anything up I just formated that thing =(

[mahniex]

I agree, Easy CD Creator 5 seems to create problems with XP. But if you suddenly have a free 1000gig HD for free just use it!!!:D

[primal51]

How exactly would you beable to boot up with 1000GB of HDD, wouldn't that mean the drive is super overclocked? espessialy if you try to use it... wouldn't it completly touch your drive?

[CraxySerge]

I wish that FDISK actually recognized NTFS partitions, but it doesnt. It says, when i try do delete a partition: "No partition to delete" But in the display partiton menu it shows the partitions. Also Windows XP Installation software said that it could not access the drive. To solve that problem i got a maxblast bootable floppy that i made from the maxtor website. But that gave me problems also. It supposedly reformated the drive and created a new partition table, i thought " SUCCESS", Rebooted, but the bios reported that the 60 Gig drive is a 31 Gig drive, so did windows xp. So back to MaxBlast i go. Reformat again, now it sees the drive as a single drive with 9 X 60 Gig partitions. Freaky. So i fooled around there for a while, and the problem was solved some how. Not exactly sure, but i had to download another win98se bootdisk and use it when maxblast software asked me for the boot info: Command.com, io.sys and so on. But now i fixed it, formatted it into 3 X 20 Gig drives, and everything works fine. But I must say that this was the weirdest Hard Drive problem i ever had. weirder then the one that had reversed slave/master jumper settings.

[Maddman]

to delete a ntfs partition you need to chose delete a non dos partition in fdisk.

[Yodums]

Adaptec does work on XP just that you need to download and update with two update files from roxio.com

Yodums

[nohoy]

just a little addition if you have easy cd creator on xp and you dont upgrade it to work with xp your computer will not shut down right. i think you said something about this, maybe not though. when i had it my computer would always restart after it shutdown.

[CraxySerge]

Screw that, im not going to use that program on XP until they come out with something that will be less buggy, and not as patch dependant. I'll just use some other software.

[mrstatzer]

"not patch dependent" you say... LOL, how long have you had an IBM compatible computer?

[phungilax]

does anybody know if Prassi Primo CD burning software has these problems w/ XP?

[CraxySerge]

"not patch dependent" you say... LOL, how long have you had an IBM compatible computer?

Yea, yea, I know, everything in a IBM compatible computer requres patches at some point or another, but Easy CD creator messed up my whole system because of an absence of some patch. Other programs that require patches at least dont mess up the partition information when a certain patch is not applied.
Anyone know any other programs that can do such malicious damage if a certain patch is absent?