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Netvista HD Hidden Partition Removal
Thanks for your posts edfair and G0AOZ - by pure luck I finally identified the problem. I successfully made use of a WIN ME bootdisk, Fdisked as suggested to partition the HD and then formatted it. XP still would recognize the drive as 1.98gig (out of 30gig). As a last resort, I was about to...- Newbytoo
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Netvista HD Hidden Partition Removal
This is my first post here. Suggestions appreciated......! I am making a dual boot Win XP Home and Unix box from an IBM Netvista 8306-KCU. I added a healthy spare 30gig (Hitachi DTLA 305030) drive from an expired Netvista. Win XP recognized the new-old drive as D: but reported only 1.98 gig...- Newbytoo
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