xp\server 2003 \hard drive strange problem

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Hi, I will explain my problem as best I can.
I have an 80 g Western Digital hard drive 7200 rpm. I had WinXP
installed on a 30 gig partition -C: and installed server 2003 on F:, the 50 g
partition. I also had a Maxtor 200 g hard drive installed used mainly for
storage and as a back up of C:.
I decided to get rid of server by wiping the partition clean. It first
showed it as being gone but when I went to reboot, it was still giving me the
option to boot from server. Finally I decided to wipe out all partitions, do
a clean install on all drives.
My problem now is that my WD still shows two fixed disks, one 30 one 50.
I have tried maxblast 4 , wipeout, fdisk, xp install, "which none will
recognize as being on same drive". Fdisk separates WD into two fixed disks,
xp won't recognize the 50 g portion at all. I unhooked the Maxtor all
together just for the sake of it.
I can't for the life of me, merge or delete the fixed disks so I get my
full 80 g back. I am very frustrated with this as I have never had this
problem deleting this before. I know it was server that locked or caused this
but what to do about it? When I try to make the fixed disk drive 2 , the 50
g, active, fdisk stays at 0% and won't do a verify or anything. It will on
fixed disk drive 1 but not 2 which server was installed on. Any help would be
appreciated greatly.
Thank you.
Extra info...
I have an Emachines-W2785 - 1.73ghz AMD , 512 ram, HAD xppro.
 
1st off FDISK doesnt run with xp...2nd,the mfg disk utilitys are worthless
in xp and/or ntfs.3rd,install xp cd,boot to cd,recovery,press enter key for
password,type:DiskPart In DiskPart,delete the partition(s),press ESC key
when thru,type:EXIT
 
Thanks for the reply but I have no XP on my hard drives at all. Recovery
option will not work since it can't find a pre - existing system. Also, I
have a new problem. The fixed disk 2 is no longer there but is. It won't show
up at all.
(continued about half hour later)...I just now installed my original
recovery disks that came with the system (xp home)thinking they may have a
different impact but didn't. It only recognizes 30 gigs which it installed
on. Even in disk manager it only shows this. I simply don't know what else to
do. I tried a disk check and it said due to locked volume, disk check
couldn't continue. I didn't set a password to lock the hard drive volume out
or anything when 2003 server was on it or anything. I had no viruses on it.
After deleting the server part, I got the error ntnfs or something similar
that came up, not found. It wasn't ntldr. I assume 2003 has locked the
volume and well, I am stumped. Thanks anyway.
 
Just an update....after trying all sorts of partition removers and tools ,
the only thing that worked was a combination of using maxblast 4 , resetting
all to 0's, and finally being able to reset the LBA size. This was the only
thing that worked, but it did and my drive is back to normal. Thanks for the
help.
Paul
 
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