Q: Heres what happened. I got this disc about a month or two ago, and when I first got, I left on Win2k, and I was able to install fine. Then I started using a number of Linux distros, and was not able to fully supported my hardware the way I wanted to find. So I decided to go back to Windows 2k. Now I can not install because it just 2k freezes on loading Windows Program at the last part of the initial prompt after loading the drivers. XP says it is unable to access my disk, although I used the software several times for both. And finally, I tried 98, which is a kind of incomplete install, missing files and I did not and will freeze on third boot after installation. Anyone have any ideas? Mobo = nForce2 Abit Nf7-S, BIOS Setup HD as Auto [tried LBA vain]. The Linux distributions are able to pick up when I drive are tested with the installation CDs. Anyone have any idea? This is me crazy!: (
Re:But you aren't going to tell us the problem? You tease!
Re:guy, was thinking the same thing. Probly gonna zero the drive later today.
stephblu, I've tried partitioning it with smaller ones than 137 GB, but it [XP install] still doesn't recognize it. The thing is, I was able to install XP Pro before that earlier yesterday, but I totally forgot I used the wrong disc [needed my XP Home disc because Pro is being used on another comp] so I had to delete everything and try again, but after that it would just say it wouldn't recognize it. It still puzzles me that 98 can detect it and install [albeit incompletely].
Re:Could well be that your ATA IDE card needs drivers to support partitions larger that 137Gb – I recently had similar troubles with Win2K3 and a 160Gb partition over exactly that.
I hadn't noticed that there was a NT driver in with my ATA/133 card's packing (it's been so long since I've seen a disk controller unsupported out of the box with NT too!). And as always reading the manual was last resort 
When you install NT you get a prompt to install additional SCSI drivers during the console setup phase. Here is where I added my ATA card's NT driver. There after NT was very happy.
Re:are you willing to lose everything on the drive ? maxtor's powermax (http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm) can write 1's and 0's to the drive and give it that fresh store bought feel.
if you don't\can't lose your stuff maybe it's what ever boot loader you were using for the linux distros stopping access to the rest of the drive ?
good luck
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