Question on a emachines recovery disk (WinME)

[RPRacing]

OK I tried to help a guy partition a new 160gb drive for his older 633mhz E-machines which is on ME. Since it has that slight problem reading over 127gb, he wanted it partitioned into a 10GB c:drive, 2 35GB partitions and the rest as another (approx 80). Created teh partitions with teh fdisk. Formatted them then tried to use the recovery disk to install ME into the c drive. Well it ERASED the partitions I made. Then tried redoing it with teh program that came with the drive. Same results.

Apparently Emachines recovery disk is made with Norton Ghost 9.0 (what the program said when it was doing it). I told him to get a regular version of ME and it will work the way he wanted. But no, he asked his cousin who claims all he needs is a ATA card to read over 127GB. SO he bought one. They installed it and guess what? Same results. Wont read over 127GB. Well now he's TICKED. TOld him 3 times that this recovery disk is the cause.

Anyone else ever had this happen?

[Nesbit]

Hi RPRacing

You could try a regular ME installation CD however I don't know
how much trouble it would be to get the drivers for the mother board.

If it were me I would use the recovery CD to install ME, then
use Partition Magic to resize the c: partition smaller and create the other partitions.

It is 69.95 us, but it's well worth it.
I'v used it for years.

[RPRacing]

I suggested that to him also. But he is so bent on having his cousin work on it now. Oh well. I figure he'll find out for himself.