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I'm stumped...please help with FDISK!

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Name: Ty
Date: July 12, 2001 at 01:29:43 Pacific
Subject: I'm stumped...please help with FDISK!
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Ok...I'm hoping for most of you masters this is an easy fix...

I have two Maxtor hard drives. A 13GB and a 20GB. Both run fine...I just wanted to do a little house cleaning so I formatted the c: drive where windows was located.

That removed all data from the c: drive. Now, when I boot from a windows cd it tells me that there is not enough space to install windows. (me, 2k, or 98 all do this) I know the disks are fine...and so are my HD's.

I ran the Maxtor partition and format program that the drives came with on the "c" drive (boot drive), hoping possibly that that would work. Unfortunately, I got the same error.

I went into FDISK - and everything seems right - but I think this is where my problem lies.

I set my primary partition (active) to the drive that is 13GB (the boot drive)...hoping that it would boot from it...but to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Is there another step?

FDISK recognizes both drives and proper memory size...but...DOS doesn't agree...

I'm pulling my hair out here...please help in any way you can!

Thanks a million!

'tY


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Response Number 1
Name: Rico
Date: July 12, 2001 at 03:28:13 Pacific
Subject: I'm stumped...please help with FDISK!
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Boot from a floppy:To a dosprompt/
A: choose your cd-rom drive x:\enter.
When found cd....type install+enter


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Response Number 2
Name: T Harris
Date: July 12, 2001 at 07:56:44 Pacific
Subject: I'm stumped...please help with FDISK!
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Go here:
http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm
Go to Product Support on the left
Click Software Utilities
Click Maxtor Software Downloads


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