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format hard drive?
Tomi Häsä tomi.h...@gmail.com alt os linux mandriva On Feb 14, 2:06 pm, "Tomi Häsä" <tomi.h...@gmail.com> wrote: If I recall correctly, with Windows 2000 and/or Windows XP SP1 it was possible to format a hard drive using FAT32 (and NTFS), which is used by Linux (I guess), so maybe Microsoft has made an evil plan

Format Hard Drive
4) Standard DOS tools like fdisk and format can be used to partition and format hard drives in excess of 137 gb. Fdisk was used to partition a 160 gb drive into a 32 gb primary and 121 gb secondary. The updated or "fixed" version of fdisk.exe was used. What has not been tested (yet) is the undocumented /Z:n command

complete format hard drive - "file ftdisk.sys is corupted"
What's the best way to re-format a hard drive? A friend of mine suggested a hard drive boot, and another suggested a utility disk... And a third is to boot off the CD. I tried the hard drive boot under intructions from my first friend... After installing Windows ME on a master hdd, (with a slave hdd activated in

Boot.Ini and recovery Console
FR=0 -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://members.home.com/dts-l/ "Nicki" wrote Hi all, I would like to reformat my parents hard drive and install a copy of Windows 98SE. The computer has Windows 95 right now. What is the command I use at the prompt? Also, is FDisk the same as Format Hard Drive? Annie.

Unable to format hard drive
Nathan wrote: Hello I want to format my hard drive but I have the following problems 1.I dont know how to do it 2.I am wondering when I format my hard drive does it also wipe all my drivers for my pc such as sound drivers and graphics display drivers because I need these and if I format my driev and they are wiped

Which external hard drive?
relic reply...@newsgroup.com alt os windows-xp Marvin wrote: Hello I need help reformatting my hard drive that is running XP any one help me???? Boot on the XP CD. Follow the "Installation" prompts, right after you hit F8 to accept the EULA, partitioning and formatting options will be at the bottom. Then complete

how do u format hard drive and what is system idle process?
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 used Ubuntu 7.10 on my PS3 to format my LaCie

Windows won't format hard drive
I have two questions: 1) how do u format ur hard drive in win xp pro? after converting to ntfs from fat32, i have found it too slow. i want to FORMAT my hard drive with NTFS and do a clean install of xp pro. (apparently if u convert the NTFS file system uses the 512 byte cluster size, when it should be 4098 bytes)

format hard drive - problem
hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to No, for scandisk to run, No, format is only used once there are FAT (usually FAT32) partitions there. (FDISK makes partitions.) Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some

Setup won't load to format hard drive?
See if DOS recogizes any partitions. If so, delete all partitions. (This worked for me.) 2. Get a hard disk utility which zeros out your entire hard drive. Western Digital has this utility which can be downloaded from their web site. I don't know if it is intended only for WD drives. Don.

Unable to delete files or format hard drive
(It seems to be a popular task to format C: today :) Best regards Bjorn -- Bjorn Landemoo - bj...@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/ Microsoft MVP - Windows NT When I am going to format my hard drive (on windows 2000pro) thru My Computer - right click on C: - Format, I receive a message telling me that it´s not

still unable to format hard drive... help!
Dan Seur cl...@casta.net microsoft public win2000 general Ty - you can't format the boot/system partition from within the OS; the OS won't allow you to overwrite itself. It sounds as though you have a hard drive with only one partition? You can use the W2k CD to do this. Start the setup, when it asks you tell it to

Format Hard Drive
I've since read that this makes it impossible for me to format my hard drive, with any upgrade version of Windows Xp. SOrry, you've read wrong. That's completely false. This appears to be true based on yesterday's attempt to do so. My PC is hopelessly hosed. Can anyone tell me which of the below options would work

how to format hard drive?
NOTE: If you do delete the partition with Disk Manager and then only create an 'Extended Partition' on Z then any logical drive you create and format on Z cannot be .... I recently added a hard drive and now my restore system doesn't recognize all the drives. I was originally running a single SATA drive which was

how do i format hard drive?
I have a focus hard drive card. the orginal hard drive died. I installed a new drive but that's all I can do. I can't figure out how to partition and format the new drive on my Apple IIe. I have a 128 Meg CF Card that's partitioned 30, 30, 30, 30 Megs. If you'd like a copy I could send it along with a CF Adapter.

How to format FAT32 in Windows XP?
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 large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\>format c:/s still no luck.

hard drive randomly and frequently losing partition information
I am trying to format one of these hard drives, but windows won't let me. Any ideas? I tried dismounting the drive and it still wouldn't let me. I do have administrator privileges as well. And, I am not logged into the drive I am trying to format. Thanks for any help. .

Windows won't format hard drive
A colleague at work had an old hard drive - 600MB. To cut a long story short the hard drive is either corrupted or damaged and (after a few days of messing around) we have decided to format the hard drive. Does anyone have a simple walk through guide on how to do this?. Is it as straightforward as 1) typing in

OS and Raid 0 possible problem
Boot from the XP CD and you can set up the partition(s) and format, then install XP. You may have to go into BIOS and set your CD drive as the first boot device in order to boot from the CD. If so, go back and reset it to your hard drive after you finish the install. -- Steve C. Ray Replace "mail" with "36db" "john

Format Hard Drive
As you have a full XP CD, then put your Dell Win2000 out of reach, boot on the XP CD (check you BIOS has boot on CD as the first boot drive) and format the hard drive (an option at the start of the XP install), install XP from scratch and use that. When it boots, just let it use the standard 800x600 screen settings