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Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
Cheers, Jonathan Lowe, jonathanl...@bigfoot.com, printerso...@eirom.net I've also run Fdisk and allowed it to create my partition, set it as active and still get the same thing when Setup attempts to format the drive. None of my boot disk contain the format program. Can someone tell me what's going on here?

Format hard drive
Hi I have just installed a second hard drive in my PC and set it up as a master. What is the best way to format this drive? When I use the format option from within windows it won't let me format. Is it best to do it from DOS? If so what command do I use? Thanks -- Gary You say a "second" hard drive set up as

New 4gb USB Flash Drive
Before doing that, yopu might want to consider what you're going to put on that drive (maybe install another version of Windows). "dc" <dcr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:nyxyb.3352$IH6.672@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com... Anyone know how to format a hard drive that has ME loaded on it?

Format Hard Drive
Wehn I do a properties check on the external hard drive h, the graphic shows the disk full, but shows "0" for values. I tried formatting, which seems to run, but only ends in an error message that Windows could not complete the format. Is the disk bad? I tend to believe an OS setting(s) but don't have clue as to

FORMAT HARD DRIVE
A complete format in Vista writes zeroes over the entire mbr, which makes it a fresh disk (and unrecoverable using linus and other recovery apps). Vista sees this disk as a fresh new drive. Disk mgmt sees all the space, but windows doesn't. That's the barrier I am trying to break. "Colin Barnhorst" wrote: Don't

Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
So that we know what we're doing, and we can be sure of what's already installed and what isn't, we have to re-format the hard drive and re-load a fresh copy of Windows 95 on it as needed. As you can imagine, this is quite a job. What's I'd *like* to do is do a fresh install, then copy the entire hard drive

complete format hard drive - "file ftdisk.sys is corupted"
I've also run Fdisk and allowed it to create my partition, set it as active and still get the same thing when Setup attempts to format the drive. None of my boot disk contain the format program. Can someone tell me what's going on here? Is there a place I can download a program that will format (FAT32) the hard

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
I am using Xp prof. and NTFS and need to format my C drive which contains my OS. I have another hard drive D. but at present I am being told that I cannot format because the drive is being used by another programme. Your help would be very much appreciated back to my email address. All the very best to every one.

complete format hard drive - "file ftdisk.sys is corupted"
Find out what kind of hard drive you have and go to the mfgs website to get a drive erase utility. If you can't find one speficically for your drive, try one from another mfg other than IBM. (This utility mistakenly gets called a low level format, but the low level format actually takes place during the manufacture

How to format hard drive under NTFS partition?
I have had such bad luck with printers, etc since purchasing this laptop with Vista-anyone have suggestions on which brand of ext. hard drive to purchase XP can't format a large drive as FAT32 (I don't know about Vista). Intentional limitation of XP placed there by Microsoft to discourage using FAT32 because it

Cannot Format hard drive
So I booted with the xp disk to do a repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive but I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so

Format secomd drive
Tomi Häsä tomi.h...@gmail.com alt os linux mandriva On Feb 12, 1:42 pm, "Tomi Häsä" <tomi.h...@gmail.com> wrote: I installed Mandriva Linux 2006 in February 2006 to my LaCie 160 GB USB hard drive. My Windows XP laptop can't recognize the drive, so how do I format it? I tried installing Ubuntu Linux 7.10 to it,

Vista 32-bit only sees 128gb of large hard drive
To get back to your questions, if you use FDISK to partition your hard drive, then you will need to format the partitions. Use of FDISK and FORMAT will destroy all data on the hard drive! FDISK will create partitions and allow you to select which primary partition is active. Selecting the active primary partition

Format Hard Drive
Now all you have to do is get rid of the invalid entries in the boot.ini file, you can do it manually, or once the boot.ini file is on the hard drive msconfig To build the boot diskette do the following: 1- Format a floppy diskette with your Windows XP installation, do not format the diskette using a Windows 9x

format hard drive
This would be quite a practical & probably the best option especially when ONE wants to install Win2000 or WinXP on th hard drive in question... Consider this as a TIP, I need help on how to do a complete format of the drive so I can reinstall a different operating system. You help is appreciated. Thanks Mike .

****How do I format hard drive to re-install Windows 95****
Is there or is there not a maximum hard drive size that windows is able to format...installed a 500gb SATA hard drive to keep my 120gb "C" Drive company...Windows XP SP 2 tells me it is unable to format this drive...WHY ??? Thank You...Frank from Montreal.

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aiiad...@gmail.com comp sys apple2 On Feb 18, 7:16 am, Giorgio Morocutti <giorgio.morocu...@alice.it> wrote: and no... I don't have access to a GS ! <g> Sorry Steve, but the utility for Focus drive ( format and partition) works ONLY on the IIGS ! :-( And I am in Italy ! I'm in USA and I'll format the drive for you

Format Hard Drive
I decided that reformating the hard drive was necessary, but encountered a problem I don't know how to handle. So I'll restate the issue..... I'm trying to reformat a 0.5G hard drive then reinstall W95 on a 5-year-old Aptiva. It worked OK for 5 years. Then recently the owner tried to compress/partition the drive

Cannot format hard drive.
As most of us know, the XP operating system cannot partition/format a hard drive in FAT32 greater than 32 GB. One *can*, however, use the FDISK/FORMAT commands on a by Jens-Uwe Mager http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/ (Refer to that site for complete details on the background of this program and its utilization.

Maximum Hard Drive Size?
XP will do its usual 'happy' chime when I plug in the usb drive, but it does not show up on 'my computer'. I know the usb drive is working properly on my linux machine, so I guess its just windoze being itself. If I recall correctly, with Windows 2000 and/or Windows XP SP1 it was possible to format a hard drive