Hard drive

[MadRussian]

Well i've posted in a couple other threads, one relating to my friend, and another relating to my graphics driver issue.

Well today a did a fresh install of Vista, and of course the issue still remains.

So i make a partition to install XP on, everything is going fine when boom, during the middle of installing XP it gives me some disk error. So i think to myself, alright whatever i'll just start again. But this problem persists. The second time i tried to install i noticed my partition was gone, and i only had about 200gb of my 400 showing in the windows xp installation. Gives me a disk error again, i get tired of it.

I try to boot up to vista, but no. It's gone, BIOS is only showing 127 gb on my hard drive and whenever i try to boot it just restarts. Now i'm trying to install vista again and it's telling me it can't find a driver to install it on.

WTF is going on.

 

[MadRussian]

Is there a way i can reformat the hard drive without an OS? this is really ****ing me off.

 

[Baez]

It' only showing 127GB because either his motherboard is too old or his BIOS isn't up to date. To answer your question about formatting: yes you can you have to third party software but it formats it in the same way as Windows and Linux do and in the same file formats.

 

[MadRussian]

It' only showing 127GB because either his motherboard is too old or his BIOS isn't up to date. To answer your question about formatting: yes you can you have to third party software but it formats it in the same way as Windows and Linux do and in the same file formats.

Yeah i downloaded some stuff my uncle recommended and i finally got xp to install on it so I'm happy for now.