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Partition lost on Hard Drive whilst formatting
Name: Terry Date: December 6, 2000 at 15:22:03 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Compaq Armada laptop 4131T. It only has a floppy drive and a fixed hard drive of 1.4MB. I have tried to format the Hard Drive and for some unknown reason when I check the FDISK utility via my MSDOS 6.22 Boot Disk I can only see a 570Mb partition and nothing else. I used to have windows 98 in a D partition on the Drive but I think I deleted that partition through FDISK. I seem to be in somewhat of a muddle. Can any kind sole help me, PLEASE!!
If you deleted the partition with fdisk. Just use fdisk to add it back.
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Response Number 2
Name: Crusader Date: December 6, 2000 at 17:37:15 Pacific
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Through fdisk remove all partitions both physical and logical. Reboot the machine. Use fdisk again to set the primary partition. It should see the entire drive. Format the drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: user Date: December 6, 2000 at 17:44:22 Pacific
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when u runed fdisk it seen the whole hardrive and made one partition when u partition it u lose everything thats on it i would recommend repartion into 1 partition on that small of drive but you can do 2 if you want ok but if you do you will have only use part of the hd for each partition after that format each partition and install everything
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