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help with formatted hard drive please

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Name: mustard
Date: August 21, 2001 at 08:30:11 Pacific
Subject: help with formatted hard drive please
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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

thanks in advance

no email add cus ive not configured it yet


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Response Number 1
Name: paul
Date: August 21, 2001 at 08:51:41 Pacific
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Very confusing post!
You do not use fdisk to format. What did you really do?


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Response Number 2
Name: Dave
Date: August 21, 2001 at 09:00:46 Pacific
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What does fdisk /status show?


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Response Number 3
Name: toad the wet compute
Date: August 21, 2001 at 09:02:56 Pacific
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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
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... 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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