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hey all i did was format my hdd on a windows 7 machine,some how that made the difference..maybe it deleted a partition or file system got change,did something xp didnt do when i formated my hdd on it. just a week afterwards it gave me disk error when booting up,think it might be due to a...

problem finally solved... put my hdd in an enclosure, formatted it and created gpt partition on a windows 7 machine. that seemed to work,i previously tried to formatt on a xp machine but windows 7 machine worked. thanx for all the help guys i really appreciate it,hope my answer will help...

hey Saltgrass i tried gpart yesterday,it picks up 149gb unpartitioned drive, i tried to partition the drive with gparted but only got an error,restarted gparted and it showed that the new partition that i created was unformatted so i tried to format it but got an error again... Got a new copy of...

morning gentz... i tried the dban ulity but stil nothing. autonuke is the command to autamatically wipe the hdd or should i be using another command? og this is driving me crazy for a whole week already... :-(

thanx for the help... i accually dont need a partition for duel boot,i just want one operating system which must be windows 7.

"This drive is an internal SATA and you have it connected to SATA 0" i have it connected to SATA1 Yes the drive is seen in bios i dont think its in raid not 100percent sure but ill make sure 2night. Will try to partition the drive with boot partition and see what happens. The hdd is new,was from...

hey,thanx for the help. i tried to do what you said but when i get to the create partition primary its gives an error, something with the cache. i also saw that my hdd bfore going next for installing says unallocated disk spaace. thanx in advance

thanks for the reply,much appreciated. i installed windows xp just for a test,it installed correctly. with windows7 though when you come to the option where you need to select the drive to install to it shows that my hdd has unallocated space.the format icon is greyd out but when i go next it...

Im trying to install windows 7 64bit on my 160gb SATA HDD but gets an error saying....WINDOWS IS UNABLE TO INSTALL TO THE SELECTED LOCATION. ERROR: 0X80300024 i can install windows xp just fine. any help will be appreciated,thanx...