Summary: I have an old NEC versa S/33. a while back i decided to reformat it. i tried and it got to 14% and stopped for a while and then said "not ready, forma...
Summary: Claude and Ronin, thank you for your suggestions. I do want to exhaust all my options before reformatting my hard drive. Can someone give me the exac...
Summary: I owned an old Nixdorf-Laptop (80286), upgraded the processor to an 80386 and wanted to change the hard drive. The problem: The Bios just allow a 20 o...
Summary: I'm looking to reformat my hard drive. I used to have step by step but lost them and i cannot find any help online (google, microsoft, dell, ect..) I ...
Summary: I need help!!! My Hard Drive has lot's of bad sectors and I hear that a low-level format can fix them... I tried everything... Please let me know wher...
Summary: Knowing what operating system and the name...manufactures name of the hard drive would be of help. Many hard drives come with a floppy, to format and ...
Summary: Resently my brother was on my computer. A day later I turned it on and there was an error message,"insert bootable media in the approiate drive" I use...
Summary: my disk floppy drive wont stop running on my laptop so i cant boot from a startupdisk to reinstall windows...upon startup it sends me to the win95 sta...
Summary: I am trying to resurect my mates computer. windows directory got corrupted scan disk restored it to dir00001 etc. It contains emails and docs that ar...
Summary: Hi there, Several months ago my 40 GB Quantum AT Fireball Plus AS died. What happened was I had put a regular IDE cable on it rather than one of thos...
Summary: What a week! First I lost all my data to the Chernobyl virus and then I went and screwed up my old pc (now enthusiastically used by my 70 year old mum...
Summary: I am upgrading a hard drive on an older pentium. I cannot reformat the disk to a larger size than 524Mb . I understand there are a few solutions. Ca...
Summary: Hi, I'm looking to install DOS 6.21 on a second hard drive. This is not a partition of one drive, I have two drives. On my primary drive I have inst...
Summary: I am trying to find a Hard drive diagnostic program that will run in dos. Not only does it have to discover problems but also fix them if possible. ...
Summary: Hello. I've tried installing a WD Caviar 21200 hard drive (1.2 Meg) on an Asus VX-97 Motherboard with a P166MMX chip on it and 32Meg Ram. Now, the mot...
Summary: thank you very much x86 - only i still cant figure it out (boy do i feel dumb today lol). The 386 computer boots from a floppy in drive a. That seem...
Summary: Hi, First of all run FDISK one more time and make sure your C: primary partition set as active (as d_lagneau said). If not - set it. And then if this ...
Summary: formated my hard drive(6.5 gig) cant re load windows 95 or 98 NTLDR is missing cant boot to dos i guess xp has no dos i need to create a dos boot pa...
Summary: Jay, I have never really dealt with compression but it seems like you could just delete the partition and recreate it. Do this with the fdisk program...
Summary: Trying to format my hard drive but I get this message saying that its lock. Never saw or heard of this before. Operating system is Win Me, Please Help...
Summary: i own 2 hard drivers. the first own is for system instalation and the second one is for data saving. i wanted to reinstall the sistem so what i wanted...
Summary: Hello!..I have a computer with a formated hard drive and i installed win98 on it i fdisk it to a Single Primary Partition and then formated it...after...
Summary: I am donating a 8086 toshiba laptop to charity. I started to delete my files and messed up. Now all I get is a prompt for the "D" drive. I think my be...
Summary: I am having a problem trying to run Fdisk. It allowed me to delete the old dos partition. When I tried to create a new one the computer froze. It neve...
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