Partition Failed

Hello all. I have my nice shiny new MP2.8 now for 1 week. So I decided it was time to start from scratch with new hard disk layout and rebuild the system.

Bay 1 - 750 Samsung F1
Bay 2 - 320 Original WD Apple supplied HDD
Bay 3 - WD Raptor 74GB 10K
Bay 4 - WD Raptor 74GB 10K

I deleted the original install on the 320gb. I created a stripped array for the two raptors. I highlighted the 750GB Samsung, click on partition and click the plus sign to create a single partition, click apply + partition =

"Partition Failed"
Partition failed with the error : Cannot allocate Memory

Has anyone else seen this problem before. I can partition the other drives no problem. No I dont have another system to test this in.

Any thoughts or experiences would be welcome. Google and MR Search is not giving much help.

TIA
-casw1000

 

I couldn't let this beat me otherwise I would not sleep. So I went round a friends house and get them to boot off a linux liveCD and fired up GParted. Nothing, it seems that although the BIOS can see the hard disk, nothing else can.

Given this is the first time the drive has been powered up, I am going to get this swapped out tomorrow and then test the replacement at work. I will update accordingly.

Cheers,
-casw1000
fold4life.com

 

Thanks. I did have a go at setting the GUID under the option, but that didn't really do anything. When I connect the drive on a pc, the bios does correctly see the drive type. Linux also sees the drive but constantly scans during the Gparted search.

However After moaning at the local supplier about this drive, they said I had "initalized" the drive, when I explain I don't have a windows machine, therefore I could not do this. They said, the drive is not faulty, I had to initalized the drive then it would work.

So I took the drive into the office and ripped open a vista machine, installed the drive as a second drive and Vista saw the drive as foreign. I could then initalize the disk and I could format.

So I shutdown the computer, booted from a LiveCD Ubuntu and tried to install, hey presto, the drive can now be seen within linux. I will install the drive in the Mac later as I am sure it will now work.

However, this is the first time I have ever needed to do this, just to get the drive to be seen by any operating system.

Thanks guys for your help. Weird one eh?
-casw1000