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Belefuu · 08-02-2005, 05:06 PM

Oh man this is hella gay. Cleared the BIOS, same thing.

I did some stupid stuff in fdisk which may have wiped or done something weird to the hd in question (all of this since the last post, so this doesn't concern the original problem). I used the fdisk /x command so that it would allow me to create/delete partitions. After using fdisk on another properly functioning computer with another drive, it seems the no label thing is normal, and basically everything was showing up ok in fdisk before. Anyways, before I did anything to the disk in question, it showed one partition of ~38000MB in fdisk (correct hd size), then said it had ~8000MB free space. Well, not really knowing what I was doing, I deleted that partition, and made a new one. Made it fat32, was the only option that seemed to make since. I skipped the "analyze disk area". Anyways, this ended up giving me a ~8000MB partition, the exact size of the free space. Still can't format it, still says invalid drive, etc etc.

I put the drive into another computer, booted up with a boot disk, and it's doing the exact same thing. Thing is, the BIOS on this computer recognizes it fine. However it still says invalid drive when I attempt to format, Windows Setup says there is no drive present, etc.

Ahh yes, when I attempted it with just my storage drive (SATA 160gb) plugged in (to see what it said in fdisk, etc), the damn boot disk wouldn't work. Said something like "NTDLR missing, press CTRL + ALT + DEL". I'm guessing this might have to do with it being an SATA drive hooked up to an SATA to IDE adapter card on the mobo. Or something.

Man do I love computers...

08-02-2005, 05:06 PM	#10 (permalink)
Belefuu Poster Heavy Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1,045 +3 Internets	Oh man this is hella gay. Cleared the BIOS, same thing. I did some stupid stuff in fdisk which may have wiped or done something weird to the hd in question (all of this since the last post, so this doesn't concern the original problem). I used the fdisk /x command so that it would allow me to create/delete partitions. After using fdisk on another properly functioning computer with another drive, it seems the no label thing is normal, and basically everything was showing up ok in fdisk before. Anyways, before I did anything to the disk in question, it showed one partition of ~38000MB in fdisk (correct hd size), then said it had ~8000MB free space. Well, not really knowing what I was doing, I deleted that partition, and made a new one. Made it fat32, was the only option that seemed to make since. I skipped the "analyze disk area". Anyways, this ended up giving me a ~8000MB partition, the exact size of the free space. Still can't format it, still says invalid drive, etc etc. I put the drive into another computer, booted up with a boot disk, and it's doing the exact same thing. Thing is, the BIOS on this computer recognizes it fine. However it still says invalid drive when I attempt to format, Windows Setup says there is no drive present, etc. Ahh yes, when I attempted it with just my storage drive (SATA 160gb) plugged in (to see what it said in fdisk, etc), the damn boot disk wouldn't work. Said something like "NTDLR missing, press CTRL + ALT + DEL". I'm guessing this might have to do with it being an SATA drive hooked up to an SATA to IDE adapter card on the mobo. Or something. Man do I love computers... Last edited by Belefuu; 08-02-2005 at 05:08 PM..