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Unable to format hard drive in WinXP Pro
Anytime I delete a file from my slave hard drive it doesn't get deleted. Also if I format the hard drive, either through Windows or in DOS it doesn't erase the information on the hard drive. Right now on the drive it has a capacity of 7.82GB, 703mb used and 7.13GB free but the problem is it's a 60GB hard drive.

Formatting Hard Drive
Now I want to reformat the hard drive and reinstall W2K from scratch. I went through several times reinstallation. During installation, there is one step asking for choosing from 3 selections: (1) install on the an unused partition. (2) install in the current installtion location (WINNT) (3) format the hard drive

format hard drive?
Create DOS partition of Logical DOS drive. b.. Set active partition. c.. Delete partition or Logical DOS drive. d.. Display partition information. e.. A fifth option will appear if there is more than one hard drive installed on the controller. Displaying DOS partition information 1.. At the FDISK options screen,

Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
The normal way to "uninstall" *any* operating system is to format the hard drive and install a new OS of your choice. Only if you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup the old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, can you then boot into Safe Mode and click Start > Control Panel

format hard drive
Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR pcr...@netzero.net "Ed" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2853001c463b9$4c03bef0$a301280a@phx.gbl... I want to format my hard drive and do not have the disks to

format hard drive
Tell it to re-detect your IDE devices or hard drive (HDD) types (the exact terms vary from BIOS to BIOS). Save the changes and restart. 2. If that doesn't fix it, you should find out about doing a complete BIOS settings reset. This is **NOT** the same as using the "Reset [factory] defaults" option in the BIOS

Boot.Ini and recovery Console
Turned out to be a flakey hard drive. It was a brand new computer, so in this instance, the drive was replaced under warranty. I did not change out the drive last time, as it tested fine with the Samsung hd501lj utility--I did not do a low-level format...perhaps I will this time. Just wanted to run this by some

Drive letter issues in restore
I have a 4 year old computer with a 3.2 gig hard drive, when I received the computer it had windows 95 and the hard drive was partitioned with two drives C,D. I have upgraded my operating system to Win 98 last year, and now would like to reformatt the hard drive. I would like to end up with one partition and use

Fdisk and Format hard drive
Please use these newsgroups "Rob Chan" <robnoch...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:01f501c2c0c9$acff09b0$d4f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA11... umm, if I format my hard drive, and then go to installed WinXP Home again, will it NOT accept my CD key? I know how once you register it, you can't use it on another computer,

format hard drive, then reinstall operating system and all else
To do this, copy the DOS mode driver for your CD to the startup disk as well as mscdex.exe from the \windows\command directory on your hard drive. Use notepad to create a config.sys file for the startup disk and load your CD drivers there. The line will look something like what follows: DEVICE=A:\CDDRIVER.

Format hard drive in windows xp.
How to format hard drive using windows 2000 or 2. How to boot or shut windows down into dos mode thanks Boot W2K setup CD and perform an install. When when the list of partitions is display, have it format C:. Proceed for a few more screens before cancelling setup. Jerold Schulman Windows: General MVP JSI,

Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card
Now the problem is I cant format them, The version Format I am using is from the Win98 it asks if I want lg Drive support all goes well till I want to format and then it Just switches back to the Dos curser I feel the Hard Drive might be protected Because it was used in a School and its to stop people fiddling.

Can't format hard drive
Generally, if you have a modern computer (Pentium 4 or Athlon XP), you do not need drive overlay software. Restart the computer entirely in DOS mode using a bootable floppy disk with the FDISK program included in it. Select the option to delete the primary partition on the hard drive. Follow all instructions.

Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
Peter peterh5...@aol.communicate comp sys mac hardware storage The situation is this: while formatting a Micropolis hard drive yesterday, the power was interrupted and I had to reboot. Now I cannot format the drive. I have tried using FWB HD TK, APS Power Tools, and Apple's Drive Setup (which recognizes the drive).

format hard drive
I do have two hard disks but the second one is old a totally blank, no data at all. All in all I now have a disk that will help to boot up in a normal fashion To format the diskette put a diskette in the drive and open a Command Prompt (cmd), at the command prompt issue the following command: format a: /u 2-

Format Hard drive & install windows XP
"Rick Whitten" <rh...@aol.com> wrote in message news:001101c2afbf$04dfb7e0$8df82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA02... I want to format my hard drive, but the format request is rejected with a message stating "Unable to complete format". Help files indicate I must be an administrator to format drive. How do I do this?

Format hard drive
My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive to get rid of a bunch of junk. WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use. He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install

Which external hard drive?
You should able to download the zero-fill (most of the time they called it as low-level format) utility from the said hard disk maker site. On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:40:58 +0800, "Dato' Lim" <d...@idunhavone.com> wrote: Normally I'll insert Win 98 start up disk in order to format my hard drive under FAT32 partition.

Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
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? There is a convention that you should remove partitions with the same software/os that created them. Windoze really does a poor job of working with non windoze

Format hard drive help
I am trying to format a Maxtor 10g. hard drive. The drive will format up to 31%... then I get a message,"Trying to recover allocation unit 293142" and the number continues to increment. Can anyone please tell me what this means? Is there a serious problem with the drive, or do I have to just wait it out?