Summary: Occasionally, when I turn on my computer, I get hard disk controller failure. I've ignored it for about 5 months because when I reboot the machine, ev...
Summary: when i turn on system it reads all the system info but i don't get know c: prompt...it goes straight to blank screen and says this.. invalid partition...
Summary: okay...I am still having odd things with my partition table. For those of you who responded to my prior post (Bad Partition & System Disk) Thanks...th...
Summary: A friend asked me to look at his Mom,s computer. It is a mess. When I turned it on it posts and says "invalid partition table". I tried to install my ...
Summary: Can someone please help me. I'm installinga new 13G hardrive so I can dual boot between Win 98 and Win NT. The new HD would be WinNT. I used a Win98...
Summary: I am trying to install Dos 5.0 on a recently formatted hard drive. When I begin with the first disk it says "cannot install because all of the primar...
Summary: Do you have Norton Utilities? Their 'Diskedit' will let you examine that partition table. It is the first sector on the disk and is called the Master ...
Summary: HI. Nobody used the computer during the holidays. When we boot up this morning, it gave us a message of invalid partition table. I tried rebooting fr...
Summary: Just as a word of caution before you do this; it will not for sure work, and if it doesn't you will get a whole bunch of new fresh problems which you ...
Summary: Well, First: you have an 8 gig drive. Second: running win95b(fat32), one partition. Which means by default when fdisk was first used to create partit...
Summary: I want to partition my 1.2 GB HDD with FAT16 how can I do this?, I need to run old progs on it... Could I boot up with a disk with fdisk form dos6.22 ...
Summary: I have a 2 hdd configuration with a 3.4 Gb Fujutsi(master,3 parti.) and a 20Gb IMB Deskstar (slave, 5 parti.), mainboard MSI6119, last BIOS. Problem: ...
Summary: thanks a lot for your suggestion. but unfortunately this laptop doesn't have standard parallel port.parallel port is also similar to the serial one wi...
Summary: Generally yes, What brand of HDD is it. Go to their web site and down their HDD disk utilities. If it really is a bad HDD, their HDD setup program...
Summary: Well, based on your description, I must make some assumptions about what's going on. It seems that you know that the hard disk is in fact installed in...
Summary: I need to write a program in DOS which takes the "start" and "end" boundries and create a extended partition whith File system netware 386(64). Let me...
Summary: Ok first of all whoever responded first after my post is an (*&^hole. Your lucky they don't post IP's here or you'd be toast. I'm an CNE and almost an...
Summary: What you need isn't format, you need fdisk. To attempt to repair the partition table (to make it easier on you) at the command prompt type FDISK /MBR...
Summary: Hey all, I am running Windows XP and am trying to play around with other operating systems. I have installed Linux (Fedora Core 1) onto a seprate par...
Summary: michael was right i suppose. when i yesterday the partition table vanished and there is difficulty in recreating it. at startup the computer repo...
Summary: I have a Dell laptop 133 MHZ 640kb and am running windows 98se. everything was fine with and then i turned it on the other day and while it was first ...
Summary: DOS does indeed support multiple primary DOS partitions. If you create four primary DOS partitions on a disk, DOS will be able to access all of them,...
Summary: Try using the DOS command: UNFORMAT. The following is what DOS HELP says about its use. UNFORMAT Restores a disk that was erased by using the FORMAT ...
Summary: oOOOOOk, heres my situation.first off, i cant get into Cmos, There is no way in hell i can find out how, because it doesnt give the command to enter i...