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Formatting Hard drive which has lost a partition
Name: Terry Date: December 7, 2000 at 13:37:52 Pacific
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I have a Compaq Armada laptop 4131T. It only has a floppy drive and a fixed hard drive of 1.4MB. I have tried to format the Hard Drive and for some unknown reason when I check the FDISK utility via my MSDOS 6.22 Boot Disk I can only see a 570Mb partition and nothing else. I used to have windows 98 in a D partition on the Drive but I think I deleted that partition through FDISK. I want to be able to create a bootdisk that will allow me to set up my hard drive with the full 1.4MB available, then so I can install interlink software to install Windows via my desktop PC which has the CD drive. It would appear that my MSDOS 6.22 boot disk won’t allow me to see all of my drive. I have tried downloading bootdisks from bootdisk.com but they all seem to install CD drivers which mean they won’t let me boot without a CD in the system. Anyone able to help me would be much appreciated.
Name: Ronin Date: December 7, 2000 at 14:02:30 Pacific
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It is more likely that this is a Compaq problem than a dos problem as dos 6.22 will allow a partition of up to 2gb. Compaq is notorious for writing oddball partition info to the hdd, so you might want to download a setup program for your laptop from their website.
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Response Number 2
Name: khalil khan Date: April 29, 2001 at 12:08:47 Pacific
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how can i recover lost data which i have in a lost ntfs partition ??
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Response Number 3
Name: khalil khan Date: April 29, 2001 at 12:14:05 Pacific
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i have 40gb segeat harddrive in which i made 20 gb ntfs partition i lost , how can i recover it??
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