hello all.. im writing this on my pda coz my pc is messed up.. the problem is i got a 120gig maxtor hd that i cant fdisk.. i got a virus on my pc that made it go compleatly nuts!! so i decided to format and reinstall but wen i booted from floppy and tryed formatt it didnt work.. i used a low format utility from maxtors website witch worked fine but wen i try fdisk my c drive it says dad comand or filename.. wen i try to access the c or d drive it says invalid drive specificatioh.. both drives r recognised and listed in my bios.. what can be the problem.. thank you all so much in advanced and please helllpppp me steve uk

How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk Simplified version of the above Fdisk article: How to Format: Use a 95 or 98 start up disk Boot to A: Fdisk Delete Partition or logical drive Delete primary DOS partition if fat16 or fat32 Delete Non DOS if NTFS Next Create DOS partition Create primary DOS partition Do you wish to use max size?_______Y Reboot to A: format C: You have FAT32 If you want NTFS you can convert later. How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System

i know how to fdisk but it wont access the c drive for me to delete the partition.. thats the problem im having

Sorry, I was just suppling general information. I have not done that in a long time. Watch for help from others.

soz im not trying to be rude m8 just its kinda hard trying to look at web pages on a pda lol..

anyone got any other sujestions that might help... please please steve uk

For a 120g hdd you should use ME Fdisk not 98's. Did you try Maxtor setup utility ? When you receive "Bad command or file name" normaly means file is not on the drive. ie no fdisk.exe found. You should be useing XP's utilities.