No Gaming For A While

[Nanor]

Hard Drive failure x2. Lack of money ergo lack of new hard drive. Bah, I'll be back gaming eventually. I'll still be around the forums a bit.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

Is teamspeak a game?

 

[DeZmond]

I was reading the shoutbox regarding your recent drive troubles, it's never good when that happens. Whatever is really happening there, it's definitely quite odd. XP should be able to recognise any partitioned amount out of the box, service pack or not. I use an original XP disc and it's recognised 200gb partitions without a problem. It is, of course, subject to any BIOS limitations, but since I think you're using something made after 1998 you really shouldn't have a problem.

Maybe it's the hard drive controller if both drives seem to have gone... is there another drive you can test it with at all??

 

[Nanor]

No, no other drive. It detects both drives and gives their name and make but it isn't able to format C: because the disk is damaged. I could get it up and running right now, but not much point as I'll have nothing and only an 8GB hard drive which I doubt BioShock will run on. Not to mention all the drivers I'll need and the fact Windows will take up space.. I'll be left with about 6GB.

I'll just wait until I've got a new hard drive probably. God knows when that is.

Killer: I may install TS on this PC for when I'm lonely, but probably not.

 

[BiG D]

I just had a thought... Did you format it as fat32 or something?

 

[Nanor]

Yeah, FAT32, but when that failed I tried it again as NTFS. I was advised FAT32 for compatibility for games. But surely if the disk is damaged it doesn't matter at all, right?

 

[BiG D]

Wait... Who advised that?

You want NTFS for sure. You're best off using the windows installer to make a small (8 or 9 gigs to be safe) partition for just windows, and not make any other partitions at that time. Then once you've updated your machine to service pack 2, you can create any other partitions from within windows.

 

[VibroAxe]

I'm curious by this, i've used a variety of drives/sizes/configs with windows, and i've never had a problem about formatting them using the windows installer. Why is everyone now suggesting formatting After installing?

 

[Turang]

yeah you definatly want it in NTFS format but as for formatting it have you got a small programme you can run from dos called Partition Magic? i find it works better then the windows formating

 

[Nanor]

My bro advised I use FAT32 but I've tried both. All these programs sound great but my C:\ drive is actually damaged and can't be formatted due to that fact so I'm gonna have to physically remove it later..

 

[BiG D]

I'm curious by this, i've used a variety of drives/sizes/configs with windows, and i've never had a problem about formatting them using the windows installer. Why is everyone now suggesting formatting After installing?

If you've got a copy of windows that includes some updates, it will probably be ok. Windows by default did not support large drives (though I forget where the cutoff was exactly, I believe it was way higher than 8 gigs...)

my C:\ drive is actually damaged and can't be formatted due to that fact so I'm gonna have to physically remove it later..

I'm not sure why you're convinced of this?

 

[Nanor]

I'm not sure why you're convinced of this?

It told me.

 

[BiG D]

Does your hardware talk to you often? :s

 

[Nanor]

Heh, no. When I ask it to format it says the disk is damaged and can't be formatted. You on MSN, D?

 

[Nanor]

New hard drive, no problems.

Pay heed to my signature.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

You can overclock hard drives?

 

[elDiablo]

You can overclock hard drives?

Only if you're as hardcore as Nanor!

 

[Nanor]

I can over clock my mouse!

No, you can't OC hard drives, but OCing the CPU somehow damaged the hard drives. Bah!

 

[Dragon]

Well poor Nanor probably didn't attach the plug of his cooler to the MB so everything overheated and the HD was the victim of this procedure xD

 

[Nanor]

Trusty speedfan said my mobo was 35 degrees.