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Aug 2, 2005 | 12:09 PM

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aowRS

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OK, I have now officially pissed away the entire day on this! After Maxtor's latest suggestion, I hopped in the car AGAIN and picked up a USB 2.0 PCI 3-port card. Undid all the cables, opened the case, installed the card, and put everything back together again.
Everything works fine, except the ability to delete the partition and format this drive.

I give up.

Andreas

Aug 2, 2005 | 01:24 PM

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Churnd

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What are you using to delete the partition and format the drive?

Aug 2, 2005 | 03:17 PM

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It's done. Another 45 minutes on the phone with Maxtor and we went through and redid all sorts of stuff. The drive is formatted and up and running. In the end my computer had all sorts of conflicts, and the drive was fine. I can't say enough positive words about their tech support.

Now I need to look into the "Primary IDE Channel Conflicts" which I was told is a serious matter.

How's that for a day?

Andreas

Aug 2, 2005 | 06:24 PM

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Wow... never would have thought of that. Glad it's working though!

Aug 2, 2005 | 07:58 PM

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Wow, that sucks, Andreas. Wish I was on here earlier to help you out. Glad you got it worked out, hope no new problems crop up. If you need any more help with it, let me know.