bios (81 hex)

[Guest]

I tried to restore a drive using ghost i ended up with a error reading **NTLDR IS MISSING+++ I checked my hard drive is a maxtor I used maxblast3 and partion magic and it showed 2 partions my hard drive and a partion +++bios (81)+++ as near as i can tell its a virtual partion written @ 81 hex and stored in the bios. i tried intel thats their board of course they wouldn't reply either the question was to difficult for their brain surgeons there or it wasn"t relstive to the probem so i would like to remove this at 81 hex how can I do this before i install another harddrive

thanks for any info
Mike

 

[Kawipoo]

Did you run a integrity check on your backup before using it? I personally
believe it is a corrupted backup and nothing to do with a virtual partition.

I tried to restore a drive using ghost i ended up with a error reading

**NTLDR IS MISSING+++ I checked my hard drive is a maxtor I used maxblast3
and partion magic and it showed 2 partions my hard drive and a partion
+++bios (81)+++ as near as i can tell its a virtual partion written @ 81 hex
and stored in the bios. i tried intel thats their board of course they
wouldn't reply either the question was to difficult for their brain surgeons
there or it wasn"t relstive to the probem so i would like to remove this at
81 hex how can I do this before i install another harddrive.

 

[Guest]

i checked and integrity was ok ---i can't delete, format,or partion this bios drive[81h
mik

----- Kawipoo wrote: ----

Did you run a integrity check on your backup before using it? I personall
believe it is a corrupted backup and nothing to do with a virtual partition

I tried to restore a drive using ghost i ended up with a error readin

**NTLDR IS MISSING+++ I checked my hard drive is a maxtor I used maxblast
and partion magic and it showed 2 partions my hard drive and a partio
+++bios (81)+++ as near as i can tell its a virtual partion written @ 81 he
and stored in the bios. i tried intel thats their board of course the
wouldn't reply either the question was to difficult for their brain surgeon
there or it wasn"t relstive to the probem so i would like to remove this a
81 hex how can I do this before i install another harddrive

 

[midnight]

If you can't delete the partition then you must have some sort of partition
manager running, as you have downloaded maxblast3 I would guess it's that.
Depending on what you want to do, one or more of the following sugestions
should get you up and running. Boot from the XP CD itself not the hard
drive. You can then go to the recovery console and delete the partition from
there. You could boot from the CD and start the installation process and
delete the partition. If you can't boot directly from the CD you can
download floppies from Microsoft that will give you the same options as
booting from the CD. As you have partition magic if you made the recovery
floppies that it comes with boot from them. You can then delete the primary
partition and create another. I'm not sure what you did when you restored
your drive to give you the error you have but once you have deleted the
primary partition along with any boot\partition manager you can restore the
partition from your Ghost backup. If you made the boot floppies that Ghost
has boot from them and you will be able to restore that drive directly from
there. If you didn't make the boot floppies from Ghost try and make them on
another computer. If that's not possable how did you run ghost the first
time? If you can run Ghost you should be able to restore the image.

Repost with anymore info if you have problems.

Midnight

i checked and integrity was ok ---i can't delete, format,or partion this bios drive[81h]
mike

----- Kawipoo wrote: -----

Did you run a integrity check on your backup before using it? I personally
believe it is a corrupted backup and nothing to do with a virtual partition.

I tried to restore a drive using ghost i ended up with a error

reading
**NTLDR IS MISSING+++ I checked my hard drive is a maxtor I used maxblast3
and partion magic and it showed 2 partions my hard drive and a partion
+++bios (81)+++ as near as i can tell its a virtual partion written @ 81 hex
and stored in the bios. i tried intel thats their board of course they
wouldn't reply either the question was to difficult for their brain surgeons
there or it wasn"t relstive to the probem so i would like to remove this at
81 hex how can I do this before i install another harddrive.

Mike

 

[midnight]

As I wrote you need to boot from the CD. The only reason I can see for you
not being able to delete the first partition is if it is loading a partition
manager first. You need to boot from something other than the hard drive and
delete the partitions from there.

What happens if you boot dirctly from the XP CD and try to delete the
partitions.

Midnight

i din't explain this good enough
1 i put on ghost the backup was ok the restore said ok when i rebooted the

error was **ntldr is missing***

iput in my max blast3 disk the drives showed maxtor 80 gig the second

drive was called **bios (81h) 80gig.

my maxtor as near as i can tell loads at (80h) my bios loads at (81h). my

mator drive shows 3 partions 2 are ntfs and one is not formatted..-- the
bios drive shows 3 partions all formatted ntfs in xp all drives are
formatted....i can put ay drive in even if it has win98 and will always show
the bios drive. I cannot format/partion or delete this..I think it is a
virtual drive loading in my bios***I have an intel motherboard** intel won't
answer how can get rid of this bios drive **before i install my new
harddrive i even tried restoreing the (mbr) so how can i delete a virtual
drive

----- midnight wrote: -----

If you can't delete the partition then you must have some sort of partition
manager running, as you have downloaded maxblast3 I would guess it's that.
Depending on what you want to do, one or more of the following sugestions
should get you up and running. Boot from the XP CD itself not the hard
drive. You can then go to the recovery console and delete the partition from
there. You could boot from the CD and start the installation process and
delete the partition. If you can't boot directly from the CD you can
download floppies from Microsoft that will give you the same options as
booting from the CD. As you have partition magic if you made the recovery
floppies that it comes with boot from them. You can then delete the primary
partition and create another. I'm not sure what you did when you restored
your drive to give you the error you have but once you have deleted the
primary partition along with any boot\partition manager you can restore the
partition from your Ghost backup. If you made the boot floppies that Ghost
has boot from them and you will be able to restore that drive directly from
there. If you didn't make the boot floppies from Ghost try and make them on
another computer. If that's not possable how did you run ghost the first
time? If you can run Ghost you should be able to restore the image.

Repost with anymore info if you have problems.

Midnight

i checked and integrity was ok ---i can't delete, format,or partion

this
bios drive[81h]

mike

I

personally
believe it is a corrupted backup and nothing to do with a

virtual

partition.
reading
**NTLDR IS MISSING+++ I checked my hard drive is a maxtor I

used

maxblast3
and partion magic and it showed 2 partions my hard drive and a partion
+++bios (81)+++ as near as i can tell its a virtual partion

written @
81 hex

and stored in the bios. i tried intel thats their board of

course

they
wouldn't reply either the question was to difficult for their

brain

surgeons
there or it wasn"t relstive to the probem so i would like to

remove
this at

81 hex how can I do this before i install another harddrive.