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Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card
John M. Wisner joh...@mindspring.com alt comp hardware Win98 offers fdisk and format to set up a hard drive for use. by setting up partitions to desired size, making a boot drive, etc. Maxtor offers Max-Blast Plus for same purpose. Western Digital offers EZ-Drive for same purpose. My question is: Assuming 2

Maximum Hard Drive Size?
However, LVM refuses to recognize the drive as a 'hard drive.' Apparently, OS/2 sees the drive as a 4gb floppy drive rather than a 'removable drive. That was the way my drive was until I formatted it on Windows with FAT. After that, it could be written to by OS/2 and I was able to format it with HPFS and 4gb

format hard drive
°Mike° ZHNTPDWBL...@fcnzzbgry.pbz 24hoursupport helpdesk How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk 18 Jan 2004 12:48:07 -0000, in <kdvOb.10$4K...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk> C&C Jones scrawled: could someone tell me how to format a hard drive please? it would be

need to format hard drive
When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would .... My dead 200 gig Maxtor disk was revived by a low level format and is still running after 8 years. Getting a hard disk out is no real problem,

Insufficient memory error when trying to format hard drive
Again no, but when I did reboot after the ME install, the 2nd drive did show up (D) but when I clicked on it, it just says that I haven't formatted it yet and asks me if I want to format it now. What makes you 100% sure that the D 'drive' was actually the 2nd hard drive at the time you saved the files to it ?

External Hard Drive
Pegasus \(MVP\) I....@fly.com microsoft public win2000 general Boot your machine with your Win2000 CD, then let it format your hard disk. COM> wrote in message news:9D43176B-A8CE-47C3-985B-66FF7646B14A@microsoft.com... WIN2000 WILL NOT LET ME FORMAT HARD DRIVE SO I CAN REINSTALL WIN2000.PLEASE HELP. JIMMYZ.

What's the best way to re-format hard drive?
Nobody was too sure about a hard drive. The drive I used was 1 gig fujitsu. It had previously had a win98 installation and latterly a redhat 5. I fdisked it and formatted it using the format command from a win98 startup floppy. There were no other drives in the system. Then I reconnected the win98 drive with the

Clean Start format hard drive
Richard in AZ m...@mailinator.com microsoft public windowsxp general You don't format XP with a floppy. The Installation CD has that option when you start a clean to boot from "Tad the Bass" wrote: "rogeepete" wrote: Maybe I should not be here because I'm trying to format a neighbor's hard drive running Win 98.

Update - new hard drive in laptop - questions
David Empson demp...@actrix.gen.nz comp sys mac apps obarrera <obarre...@hotmail.com> wrote: I am trying to format my MAC OS X system. How would you format the hard drive? I have tried booting up from the CD but since I couldn't find the OS that I had prviously installed on the computer it wouldn't let me since it

Format hard drive
I'm working on my friend's computer and have a problem - I can't format a second hard drive. Here's the scoop: I'm upgrading his 500MHz Gateway with new (if they matter)...old hard drive formatted as FAT32 and has Win98SE installed, new hard drive (which will come out after transfer is complete) is formatted as

Format Hard Drive
You can get it at their website. "Franconeus" <Francon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A35FE8A0-C63D-48BF-A858-29F5DC1D57E6@microsoft.com... 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.

FAT32 size issues, _just_ about size?
ray r...@zianet.com alt os linux mandriva On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:42:18 -0800, Tomi Häsä 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? You can run gparted from a Live CD to partition and format.

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
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). So if you repartition the drive, one for NTFS and one for FAT32, you may need to use Linux

Format Hard Drive
Hello, After a catlog of error's with my boot up, I decided to do a complete format of my hard drvie and re install XP. I formated from the system retore option you get after putting in the 6 disk boot dowloaded from Microsoft. After formatting, I thought just set up the Bios to boot from CD and insert XP cd to

Cant format Hard Drive win98
I just got a Dimenssion 4100 with WIN ME and would like to format the hard drive and start fresh, DELL installed allot of software I don't need In WIN98 I just rebooted to DOS and format hard drive but WIN ME does not give me the DOS Option can someone give me a hint on how to format a hard drive in WINDOWS ME and

Can't format Hard Drive
Follow the on screen directions to allow Windows 98 to complete the installation. If you do not have drivers for a particular device instruct the installer to look in the If you feel that you MUST format the hard drive to solve a particular problem, substitute the above step #4 for the following step #4: 4.

I Can´t Format Hard Drive
Insufficient system resources exist to complete API No virtual memory or paging quota is available Application failed to initialize properly When I am at my Does anyone know of any software that will allow me to format the drive so that I can use it again, if I try to format from DOS I get the error drive write

Can't format hard drive
Will Denny wjd444...@yahoo.co.uk microsoft public windowsxp newusers )' So long as your hard drive isn't NTFS formatted and you want to start with a fresh hard disk - ie delete everything - boot from a Windows ME EBD, select 'with CD support' and then from the A: prompt type "format C:" - without the quotes.

External Hard Drive Error
kev kevin.gaisfo...@tinyworld.co.uk microsoft public windowsxp general Hello, After a catlog of error's with my boot up, I decided to do a complete format of my hard drvie and re install XP. I formated from the system retore option you get after putting in the 6 disk boot dowloaded from Microsoft.

You'll never guess, WinXP
Type "Y" for yes, press Enter to proceed with format. 4. Once format is complete, type a volume label if you want one and press ENTER. Have windows 2000 on a Dell laptop and wish to format hard drive and replace it with win98 to conserve 1.5 gig hard drive have tried f8 comand on boot up to a safe mode DOS