format problems
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Name: Alex Johnson
Date: January 18, 2002 at 04:13:25 Pacific
Subject: format problems
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Comment: I successfully re installed windows 98 on my PCG - 735 sony vaio notebook and tried to partition my hard disk using fdisk. Most of the time to program crashed but I did tell it to partition my drive - I don't recall being asked how big a partition - and restarted the computer to make the changes. It said "missing operating system". I used product recovery CD again and still it said missing operating system. Fips tells me that I have 4 partitions part 1 unbootable - majority of disk; part 2 bootable 0Mb, part 3 nonbootable 0Mb, part 4 non-bootable 133Mb. I tried format c: and it said "trying to recover allocation unit" and starts counting slowly through a number. I left it for 17 hrs and it is on 36,502. I have no idea what this means but if it is disk clusters then it will take about 26 days to complete. Any ideas of how to fix the problem? When ever i use fdisk it crashes and when trying to read c: it tells me the media type is invallid. Any response would be greatfully recieved.
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Response Number 2
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Name: tinkerbong
Date: January 18, 2002 at 04:22:55 Pacific
Subject: format problems
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Reply: (edit)Confused !!!
you successfully installed win98.
THEN tried to partition the drive? ? ? ?
Why? The usual order is:
partition (fdisk)
format
install OS
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Name: Buster
Date: January 18, 2002 at 08:01:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Look here for help: http://www.geocities.com/Kool_Dude_1998/installingwindows.html http://66.70.146.193/computer/formattip.html
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Response Number 4
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Name: sam
Date: January 18, 2002 at 11:53:50 Pacific
Subject: format problems |
Reply: (edit)Sounds like your active partition has no system files on it. I think I would start all over.
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Response Number 5
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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: January 19, 2002 at 00:43:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Format is detecting bad spots. Could be your drive is dying. Download a low level format or zero fill utility from the HD manufacturer's site and run it. This will remove all partition info and data. Then repartition and format. If you still get the bad cluster messages when fomatting look for a new HD.
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Response Number 6
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Name: jhune
Date: April 6, 2002 at 09:23:57 Pacific
Subject: format problems
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Reply: (edit) Iv got a new PC last Feb. but ive got a problem with my 40gb Seagate,evrytime I check the format its always "recording current bad cluster" its so slow and many error.I run anti virus and utilities still nothing happened. How does it occur? thanks God bless and peace.
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