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Fdisk
Name: chad Date: August 6, 2001 at 15:04:09 Pacific
Comment:
Does anyone know why i am unable to access my drive in fdisk. It only gives me the option to change current drives.
Name: shovel204 Date: August 6, 2001 at 16:53:47 Pacific
Reply:
drive is probably formatted as ntfs.
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Response Number 2
Name: GSV Date: August 6, 2001 at 18:21:41 Pacific
Reply:
Try fdisk /status; it should give you a read-out of all the drives present and their, well, status. You should be able to access an NTFS volume, as the fdisk menu contains an option to remove non-DOS partitions, which are, obviously, Abominations In The Sight Of Man And God.
Summary: How do I run Fdisk, to remove the active status and then partition a second hard drive that I intend to connect to my current W2K Pro system? I think I read where I could only do it with Win98 system ...
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ICS and NAT32
