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Answered Windows 8 CP unable to read 1 of 16 partitions

  • Monday, April 23, 2012 4:41 PM
     
     
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    I have a 4 internal hard drive Computer with 16 partitions.  When I formated one of the partitions and Installed Windows 8 CP on 120Gb disk partition 1 60Gb.  Windows 8 reported partitions 1 70Gb on a 250Gb disk needed to be formated.  This partition worked fine and was visable to Windows 7 SP1.  Partition 1 on the 250Gb disk was bootable and worked!!  Why is Windows 8 CP unable to access this partition when it works GREAT with windows 7.

    My Computer is

    Mother Board - ASUS P5E

    CPU - Intel Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ

    Memory - 6Gb

    Internal Hard Drives - 500GB, 320Gb, 250Gb, 120Gb

     

    normanki

     

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  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:02 AM
     
     
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    I do not advise using more than 1 partition to a disk.

    Using that many disks is also ill advised

    backup your files and repartition the disks as a single vol then move the files back using directories etc

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  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:45 AM
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    You may need additional SATA driver for the disk. However the computer or motherboard manufacturer may not release Windows 8 drivers at this time. Try the latest SATA driver and see if it can help.

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