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help with formatted hard drive please
Name: mustard Date: August 21, 2001 at 08:30:11 Pacific
Comment:
i have a hdd of 20g+ and it was partitioned into c, d, and e. c being aprox 4g d being 9g and e was 7g
i decided to format drive c having done this before thought there would be no prob. so went into fdisk and when c finished formatting it said error windows unable to load bcus c was not formatted corectly so i tried in vane to deleted dos partition and try again, first i just had a c drive of about 11g so i tried to format again and tinkered about with extended partition and ended up creating a d drive of 2 g but still it wont recognise the rest of my hard drive im running win 98
if you formatted drive c you have no OS anymore, so why you got a windows error is strange.
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: August 21, 2001 at 21:08:08 Pacific
Reply:
... fdisk /status, as suggested, would be helpful. Did you select 'large disk support'? This might explain the 2 Gb partition, that's as big as they get without large disk support - still, details are sketchy - try and restate - you may have done some irreversible things tho'.
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