Yesterday I experienced a problem where my 2nd (SLAVE) SATA drive would only show as “unformatted’ in both Windows XP Disk Management and in Easus Partition Manager 4.0 Home. Subsequent googling revealed that a solution that has worked for that problem is to install any service pack for XP. I downloaded and installed XP SP3 […]
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Long story short, the solution to this seems to be upgrading to the latest service pack. Apparently Windows XP (no service packs) can’t recognize certain sizes of SATA drive. Here is an excerpt from a web article, with more information: … Last week, my desktop died, reboot looping and the whole works. tried many things,
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FolderSize 2.4 (Sourceforge 2009.06.25).msi This program installs a service that displays the size of a folder in details view, in windows explorer. I decided to install it before the partitioning software, because I need to make room on my large hard drive and transfer and delete certain files as necessary. Date Published: 2009-10-12 Date Updated:
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10:22 AM Used Easus Partition Manager Home last night. Was unable to employ “Create New Partiton”, so I figured maybe the key was to resize old partion, then do a “Create” on the resulting un-allocated (leftover) space. But, for some strange reason, in both Easus and in Windows “Disk Management” utility, the unallocated space shows,
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