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On reinstalling W_95 somehow split my hard
drive. says have C: & F: alos split space and mem. Can I somehow merge these "GHOSTS"
back to C:,(without getting too technical)?
Or do I need a "Geeky-Guru" for this one?
Thanks for any help!!!BJS
Since it's a fresh installation it'd be best to just start over. Boot up with a bootdisk and run fdisk to delete all the partitions. Then recreate a single partition. Reboot, format the partition and reinstall windows.
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"C: & F: alos split space and mem"
mmm'kay... better call a "Geeky-Guru" for sure
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a home
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wizard-fred,
Good question.
IIRR DOS 6 used to make an h: drive.
Dunno about w95.
jboy,
YER!
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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I agree with DAVEINCAPS. If it's fresh, go again.
Toshiba... Laptop?
If you don't have access to the floppy and the CDROM at the same time, there's info in the HowTo's at the left of the page.
It's a good day when you learn something
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Thanks to all, CPU/Ram:40.0MB, FAT16, (I think, could be 32). Dir of C: says 503MB,(F: says same). Can I do as DAVEINCAPS suggests, then install W-98SE, (I have the disk). Strainge, Drive C: has 19 Files, and 32 directories. Drive F: shows, 42 files and 2 directories. To tell the truth, I am concered about FDISK.......everything I'VE read tells me FDISK is a "NO-NO", (my grand-kids concur) FDISK/Status shows only 1 disk, drive C:@ 14677MB. W-98SE is suppose to intall over W95 but with 2 drives, there is not enough room on either one to accomplish the Task. I want to do as DAVEINCAPS suggests, but, I would really appreciate encouragement. Thanksabunch
BJS
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Fdisk/status is showing a ~15 gig drive but C: and F: are 500 meg each? That's not as it should be. And I'm wondering why the second drive is seen as F: if you only have one hard drive. Normally one physical drive with two partitions will show C: and D: Is it possible you have a second hard drive connected? Run just fdisk again (not fdisk/status), Y to large disk support if asked. Does the menu that now shows have 5 options? If so then you have two physical drives. Choose # 4. Exactly what does it say? If you have two drives change to the second one with option 5 and then post back # 4 for it also.
There's so many things that could be involved here--the drive not configured right in cmos, a drive overlay may be involved, the drive originally partitioned with an older version of dos, etc.
When you start up the computer but before it goes into windows, do you get a message something like 'EZbios installed press CTRL for boot options'? That means you have a drive overlay installed that's allowing an older bios to see the drive correctly.
Go into cmos/bios setup. How is the drive identified there?
And there's nothing wrong with using fdisk to do what needs to be done. Using it to delete the partitions will remove your existing data but that doesn't matter if you're going to reinstall.
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The 503MB drive sizes is suspicious. If the drive was partitioned on a system with a very old BIOS. However I am leaning toward the installation of a drive overlay.
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Problem solved! Thanks to all who responded.
and a special thanks to DAVEINCAPS who seened to have a handle on the problem from the start, (bought a new computer!!!!!).BJS
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