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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: zollen on September 05, 2009, 01:26:59 am

Title: IDE drive does not exist or all primary partitions are occupied!!
Post by: zollen on September 05, 2009, 01:26:59 am

I have installed WINXP 32BITS Home Edition along with drivers and other necessary softwares. After I download the Xpress Recovery2 (latest: Ver.1.01.070817) image (*.iso) and burned it into a CD, here are the step I performed:

1. Insert the CD
2. Reboot my machine
3. Press F9 the first time
4. Press continue
5. Press any key to load the Xpress Recovery2
6. I see the initial blue screen of Xpress Recovery2
7. I received the following message:
IDE drive doesn't exist or all primary partitions are occupied

Here is my BIOS settings:
IDE controller: Enabled
SATA: Enabled
Boot Priority: 1. CD, 2. HDD

Hardware Configuration
SATA #0: SATA Hard Drive
SATA #1: DVD Burner/Reader

I have only one SATA hard drive (500GB) with 250GB as the system primary partition. The rest (250GB) is unallocated space.



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Model Name : GA-EP45-UD3L(rev. 1.0)

M/B Rev : 1.0
BIOS Ver : F4

VGA: XFX 9600GT
CPU Brand : Intel      Model : Q9550     Stock Speed : 2.83
Operation System : Win XP  SP3
Memory Brand : Mushkin     XP-8500 2GB x 2
Power Supply : 650 W

Title: Re: IDE drive does not exist or all primary partitions are occupied!!
Post by: Bit on September 12, 2009, 07:55:30 am

This problem is caused when you do not leave any room for the software to backup to a second partition, if you created one partition on the drive that fully occupied the drive then all partitions are full. You need to leave room on the drive for Xpress Recovery2