Can't load M$ software on drive G ?

[Crypto]

Hi Chaps,

got a strange problem here in WinXP.

I've partitioned up my WD120 drive as recommended elsewhere on this fine forum (thks MM)
Really weird, I can't load Flight Simulator 2000 or Combat Flight Sim on my games partition G. I can put them on my Pictures partition, my videos partition or even my Data, but not on G!

I've loaded other stuff on G (Quake) no problem.

With M$ products I get this error when selecting which drive to upoad to "Invalid drive or folder is invalid, incomplete, too long or write-protected"

I've searched M$'s knowledge base to no avail and I'm blowed if I can see a difference in settings to my other partitions.

I've tried to re-format G, but I can't do it from within windows.

Anyone know what's going on?


Cheers

Crypto :D

[Crypto]

any ideas at all please?

How do I format partition G only?

Cheers

Crypto :D

[Shorty]

Never heard of that.. thats wierd.. and even googling gave me nothing mate :wtf:

To format it.. just open control panel ---> administrative tools ---> computer management ----> disk manager :)

You will see your paritions listed, you can then right click the G: partition and reformat it :)

Just be careful, I hit the wrong partitiion once.. and deleted 3gb worth of "my documents" :(

[Thrax]

Crypto, inside the windows disk manager, can you tell me these things:

1) Is the G:\ drive a logical or extended partition?
2) Is the G:\ drive NFTS or FAT32, or something else?

[Crypto]

Thrax,

I'm now at work and can't see the exact details, but the odd thing is that all the partitions should be the same, and I don't have the problem with any of the others.
I built this new computer about 2 months ago, partitioned and formatted it from the XP installation disk.
Certainly it's formatted as NTFS.

Shorty,
thanks for the heads up on partitioning from within windows, I've been trying to do it from within "my computer"/"properties" and it keeps telling me I can't format if there are any programmes open that access the partition.
I'll try your method this evening.

Cheers and seasons greetings

Crypto :D

[Crypto]

Format G: didn't work :(

I've also found that I can't load M$ software on K: as well, any other partition from C to L works though :scratch:

I've managed to load Quake 3 and Grand Prix 3 on G: with no problem.

I'll keep searching MS Knowledge base, but if ther's anybody here that has a clue......

Cheers

Crypto :D

[Geeky1]

Little OT, but why the hell have you got hard drives labelled C-L?

I've got 640GB of storage in one of my systems, and even that only has C and D drives...

[Thrax]

I'm currently using a single 120GB HDD with 7 partitions.

It's not that uncommon.

[Geeky1]

bbbbut WHY? What the hell do you do with 7 partitions?

I use as FEW partions as possible. 1/drive or array, if there are 2+ drives in the system, or 2 if there is only 1 drive.

[Thrax]

I use as many partitions as possible to:

1) Logically segment all my stuff by genre
-OS
-Installed programs/apps
-Game ISOs
-Movies
-Music
-Uninstalled Apps
-16mb FAT partition for DOS flashes

2) Lose as little data as possible if a certain portion of the drive decides to lose its mind. It's far easier to recover from data errors when it's isolated to a partition, rather than letting it spread across the whole drive. Will a logical blocking stop a portion of the disk from going bad? Nope. But they provide convenient starting points for data recovery, and tend to stopp compound data errors.

[Geeky1]

Well if you insist on being organized ;)

I've got ~1.06TB of storage between the computers... I have no idea what the hell is on at least 1/2 of what I've used, which is <1/2 of that space... so, in other words... I have no idea what the hell 1/4 of the stuff on my computers is, or how it got there. :crazy: :rolleyes:

[Crypto]

I followed the the advice of the much respected MediaMan in his article http://www.short-media.com/article.php?47.0

I like the concept of good housekeeping and security of data if one section of the hard drive gives up.

It certainly got my son out of trouble when his drive packed up with his final year university dissertation on it. I was able to recover it for him. He was very, very pleased :)

Cheers

Crypto :D