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purenuman · 01-05-2005, 13:02

I had similar problems with a WD drive in my sisters PC yesterday.

I had tried and failed to install XP on it after creating either a FAT32 or NTFS partition with the XP setup CD.

When I put it in my PC I had the same trouble as you i.e. Windows thinking it was a removable drive.

I nearly gave up but tried one last attempt at installing XP on it.
This time I used Acronis to delete the existing partition and create a new one formatted as NTFS.

XP installed fine.

I'm not sure if the XP disc manager/XP setup was seeing the drive wrong and not partitioning or formatting it properly.....Or the drive is on it's way out but it's working fine at the moment.

01-05-2005, 13:02	#3
purenuman Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Madchester Age: 59 Services: SKY+ & NTL 2mb Posts: 512	Re: My system drive is showing up as removable in the system tray. I had similar problems with a WD drive in my sisters PC yesterday. I had tried and failed to install XP on it after creating either a FAT32 or NTFS partition with the XP setup CD. When I put it in my PC I had the same trouble as you i.e. Windows thinking it was a removable drive. I nearly gave up but tried one last attempt at installing XP on it. This time I used Acronis to delete the existing partition and create a new one formatted as NTFS. XP installed fine. I'm not sure if the XP disc manager/XP setup was seeing the drive wrong and not partitioning or formatting it properly.....Or the drive is on it's way out but it's working fine at the moment.