My Acer Extensa 501dx laptop has windows nt 4 workstation installed on it (At least i think!). I installed myself and one day windows would not start. all it did was show a line in the upper left hand corner. I tried to reinstall windows nt and it said there was not enough disk space. so i tried to format the HD, but it would not let me. finally i tried fdisk. i ran fdisk and deleted the hd. it told me it was going to restart. it did, and i ran fdisk once again, told it to re-create the hard drive and it said: "Not enough space to create new partition. Press ESC to return to fdisk." Does anybody know what to do?

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Allow me to add a bit to x86's excellent link. You sould seriously consider the option presented during install for repair. You don't even have to have a ERD [emergency recovery disk - nice to have - made by running rdisk/s at a cmd prompt] to do a repair. if you can't get into your system and you have never run rdisk/s then your repair files are pretty pristine. But at least you are up and running. Try this first. I suggest this since from the fdisk error message, fdisk was not successful. This could indicate a problem with the drive. Supporting evidence of this is that you could not install NT. You should have gotten a message when you decided on a new install that there was an existing NT installation and did you wish to overwrite. I certainly would give killdisk a run and see if you can't get back up and running with a new install of NT.

Thank you for your suggestions! KillDisk really worked, and my laptop is finally running. Thank you for your help! -Ben Mayo