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cannot format winxp
Name: Folk Date: February 1, 2003 at 06:27:15 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: 1700xp/256ddr
Comment:
help; I recently tried to format my hard drive with winxp as my os. As you no it wouldn't let me. So like a noob i fdisk my hd and deleted the primary partion, after, it said file system unknown and fat32 on the second drive. I tried boot-it and was able to delete all my partitions "great" and got my file system back to fat32. But it still wont let me format the drive. And now i can boot up with cdrom support but cant find the cdrom drive, "i have 2" i know the letters change when you change how many partitions you have but i tried c: its there d:there e:there f: ram dos or somthin like that, g: H: I: one of these should have been the cdrom. I cannot boot from cd and cant format my drive in dos did i toast this 60 g maxtor?
Name: Folk Date: February 1, 2003 at 08:56:29 Pacific
Reply:
hmmm;
ok, i seem to have figured it out! I used maxblast II to partition and format the drive then still couldn't get the cdroms to post with bootup disk so i created a new disk and it worked woot! ran setup and installed win98. thax for all the help!
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