Where can I find FDISK that works with my old dos version?
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Name: Arndís
Date: December 9, 2000 at 05:55:53 Pacific
Subject: Where can I find FDISK that works with my old dos version?
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Comment: I messed up my hard drive and I can not format it or do fdisk it says it's not the right version of dos. I booted up from a win95 bootup floppy which contained the fdisk program but I can not use it on the computer. I think the drive was a FAT 16 partition (it's a very old one) and computer was running a upgrade of win95 from win 3.11
I think!! I can not access the hard drive, it's set up in the bios settings and I get the drive letter under dos but when I do dir there is nothing, not accessable. Help!! I was doing so good with this before i moved this hard drive to my newer computer in the efford to try to copy win95 to the drive since the cd-rom drive was not working. The "host" computer started to format the drive but stopped in the middle and could not do it, maybe that's why I can not access it in the old computer??
Do you know where I can get an older version of the FDISK program? or an older version of a boot disk??? Thanks,
Arndís
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Name: chappie
Date: December 9, 2000 at 06:16:28 Pacific
Subject: Where can I find FDISK that works with my old dos version? |
Reply: (edit)if format stopped in the "middle" there is a good chance the drive has bad sectors. i can mail you a low level format program if you need it. a lowlevel format can sometimes clear bbad sectors if they are not physical defects.
hope this helps
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Response Number 2
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Name: Arndís
Date: December 9, 2000 at 06:27:00 Pacific
Subject: Where can I find FDISK that works with my old dos version?
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Reply: (edit)Hi, thanks for your support, I did a low level format through the bios menu settings and it worked OK, though the space on the hard drive got smaller, maybe it has bad sectors?? but I can not do the fdisk command on my computer, it doesn't have a operating system installed and I have a boot up disk that I did before I messed up the hard drive and it workes to boot up but I can not use the fdisk file from it though!! don't know why!! I am searching the internet for other boot up disks and I found one for dos 6.2 I think, I am going to try that one.
Thanks for your help, I also downloaded a partition program of some sort, gonna try that as well,
Thanks alot!!
Arndis
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Response Number 3
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Name: Arndís
Date: December 9, 2000 at 15:25:45 Pacific
Subject: Where can I find FDISK that works with my old dos version?
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Reply: (edit)Hi, I've fixed this problem and I got my whole pc to work, installed win95 again and all is working like it should except the cd-rom drive which I think is broken.
Thanks for your support,
ARndís
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