aphelion1736
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here is a video on what happens when i select "English" -it automatically scrolls to the bottom of the list (Japanese)-This also happens with scroll bars in Safe Mode before I started the reinstallation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWt
Though I suspect it to be a deeper problem I tried both Vista Premium 64 and 32 disks-Same problem.
I am able to format but I am only seeing PART of the drive ~232GB (its a 250 GB Hard drive-the difference is much more than I expect for drive management of whatever the drive steals for itself)- It says "partition 2" but does not show me what's on partition 1 or 0, however it should be labeled. I formatted the disk a few months back but I had left a few GBs unformatted-this is what i think accounts for the missing part-yet I don't see it during the installation. Strange thing-just before stability issues arose in Windows-during boot up it started prompting to select an OS-but I had only installed one OS (single boot!)-and this did NOT begin soon after my last reinstall-just wondering if something was surreptitiously installed on the unpartitioned space without my consent!???
When I go into DOS from the installation disk I see a volume "x:" with about 4 folders. I run the DEL command on these folders and it returns "access denied" . When I run the FORMAT command on the volume "x:/" it prompts for its label- which i found out to be "boot" by running the DIR command on x:/ . However once I supply the label "boot" to the prompt after I tried to format-i say it cannot format-"disk is write protected." Short of removing the disk to an external enclosure to have access to the entire 250 GB (less HDD management space) -i am looking for a software solution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWt
Though I suspect it to be a deeper problem I tried both Vista Premium 64 and 32 disks-Same problem.
I am able to format but I am only seeing PART of the drive ~232GB (its a 250 GB Hard drive-the difference is much more than I expect for drive management of whatever the drive steals for itself)- It says "partition 2" but does not show me what's on partition 1 or 0, however it should be labeled. I formatted the disk a few months back but I had left a few GBs unformatted-this is what i think accounts for the missing part-yet I don't see it during the installation. Strange thing-just before stability issues arose in Windows-during boot up it started prompting to select an OS-but I had only installed one OS (single boot!)-and this did NOT begin soon after my last reinstall-just wondering if something was surreptitiously installed on the unpartitioned space without my consent!???
When I go into DOS from the installation disk I see a volume "x:" with about 4 folders. I run the DEL command on these folders and it returns "access denied" . When I run the FORMAT command on the volume "x:/" it prompts for its label- which i found out to be "boot" by running the DIR command on x:/ . However once I supply the label "boot" to the prompt after I tried to format-i say it cannot format-"disk is write protected." Short of removing the disk to an external enclosure to have access to the entire 250 GB (less HDD management space) -i am looking for a software solution.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell