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FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1
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Name: finalrhyme
Date: April 16, 2004 at 15:35:07 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1OS: Win98seCPU/Ram: 333mhz/128sdram |
Comment: Hello, I have looked among many posts on this site and conclude that there isn't one that has to do directly with my hard drive problem. I own a 6 gig Maxtor drive. Everything was working fine with windows 98se. Then I formatted the drive from my WinXP Pro CD, which booted up successfully, although after I formatted the drive using the NTFS fileing system(full format, not Quick) I am unable to access the drive, or boot from my CD even, I have tried various boot disks and am unable to do anything, Fdisk also is unable to access the drive. When booting my computer up there is a big delay before my boot disk is even recognized. How do I access this drive to make it FAT32 again?? Or is the drive damaged? Thanks in advance, John
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Response Number 1
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Name: YOYO
Date: April 16, 2004 at 17:37:06 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1 |
Reply: (edit)Set the cd drive as 1st boot device (not your floppy)in your bios. Then insert the XP disk and boot up. You should be able to do a format again and choose fat32 this time. YO
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Response Number 2
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Name: finalrhyme
Date: April 16, 2004 at 17:50:04 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1 |
Reply: (edit)Sorry, I didn't mention that it is already set up in the BIOS to boot from the CD Drive. Even when I tried the CD before the floopy it made no difference. I even tried putting the drive into another computer, since the NTFS format I cannot get anything to access the drive, although it detects it in the BIOS. YO YO YO,
John
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Response Number 3
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Name: OtheHill
Date: April 16, 2004 at 18:17:46 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1 |
Reply: (edit)Download and use Delpart. Delpart can delete any type of partition. After that you should be able to start over. Find Delpart here: Radified.com/files
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Response Number 4
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Name: YOYO
Date: April 16, 2004 at 18:18:33 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1 |
Reply: (edit)Is there any hard drive specialist out there! Is a 6gig too old for ntfs? Would there be any problems? YO
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Response Number 7
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Name: finalrhyme
Date: April 18, 2004 at 15:13:28 Pacific
Subject: FDISK - unable to Access Drive 1 |
Reply: (edit)Greetings OtheHill & YOYO, Bad news:
I tried Delpart and the program could not detect my hard drive. Good news:
After f**@ing around for a while with the drive connected to my 2gighertz, I was able to access the drive using the windows xp pro cd, although it took a hell of long time to boot from my cd for some strange reason, anyhow, I deleted the partition, wouldn't work, some how I managed to make a new partition then deleted it and I am currently making a FAT32 partition using DOS. Thanks for all your help, I think the disk must be failing or something, but I am not sure, if this works out good I'm happy! :) John
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