help...im trying to format my drive and it kept telling me fat was corupt...so i went to delete the partition and now there is a volume label that i cannot type...it ends with an (=) and that key will not come out..ps it's not the keyboard..i tried others...and it's not a carachter..did that too...is there a utililty that will work and should i low level format after..thanks for the help....i will be online allday today using AIM...name is RRRICKV..any help would be appriciated...

You do not really need to label your hard drive to install the OS.When you come to this point simply press enter to skip the labeling.Good luck.

Read the post Petit. you need to put the volume label in before you can delete the partition.

Did you try to rename the volume label in DOS ? At C: prompt, type LABEL Will it let you enter another label name ?

That is not an equal sign then? This is a new twist on an old trick of anti pirating software that only marks you. Labels like Ao in DOS cannot be relabelled because you cannot enter a small o in DOS. One way to get rid of Ao is to format the partition and when the volume labelling comes at the end of the format enter a new name. Get hold of WIPE.exe from the IBM.COM website. It will erase these things also.

i know that i it does not make a differance if i label or dont.....but i cannnot format the drive...it keeps telling fat is corupt..and how am i suppose to fix that....i cant repartition becase of the (=) character on the labe that i cannot type in order to continue .....ps that label was not on there before...about 30 min's before these happened i had partitioned and formatted the drive

Can you ,Rick ,give more details ? What OS were you using for fdisk and format? What size and type of drive? When some fdisk does not work try one from Microsoft: these are more conservative (use Win 98 boot disk for instance). If you need to give info on type of PC to delete partition, use MSD to find exact letters and numbers. The fat comes from formating the drive.Did you try scandisk on that drive. Partitioning is the fastest way to get rid of a problem caused by format.I suggest that you do not use exotic fdisk and other utilities to solve this problem. Have you tried some other spare hard drive. The size is not important as long as it is the same type.You could check this way the keyboard problem.