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 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: I need to perform a complete factory-type reformat on my hard drive. There is supposed to be a Dos command called 'fd del', that can do that. Can anyo...
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: additional info - there is nothing at all on the hard drive except the one file command.com - computer boots up fine and can run dos programs. Can I ...
Summary: Sounds to me like you may ahve a real problem.... If you didnt back up your files your OUT...If you have the operating system (i.e. windows, os/2, uni...
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: Um, Gerry, what makes you think that you have DOS4.1? I'm just askin' because that would be a little odd (DOS4 came out in 1990 or so) - does it say ...
Summary: It sounds like your FAT(file allocation table) was corrupted rather than a physical problem. If your hard drive was damaged physically then even afte...
Summary: Pineapple, you're doing fine Ok - right, you really shouldn't use a 622 disk on a relatively modern hard drive, as that version of DOS can't handle F...
Summary: Nah Hard Drives are the most common thing to break down. Their could be tons of things that mite of messed it up. It could of been droped or someone j...
Summary: I'm getting an MS Explorer "Illegal Operation" message when I try to boot up into WIN98 (safe or normal mode). It will boot up into Dos however. Compu...
Summary: I replaced my dead 4Gb with a 3Gb, only problem is I can't delete the partition and start over again. I can access it, it still has it's old conten...
Summary: Hi, I had a really old computer which I previously had windows 98 installed. Then I mistakenly erased alot of files and basically windows couldn't eve...
Summary: Hey Guys! I am having an problem. I reformatted my CPU's hard drive, and when I started it up again, it said This file is missing or corrupted... I go...
Summary: MY hard drive was running perfectly good with win 98 (its a 60 gig 2 1/2") then i wanted to put red hat on it. so i reformatted it. and did a complet...
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: Thanks for the responses. I used the seagate software and it said the drive was fine after checking it. Although it still would not show as the c: So...
Summary: Some good news and some bad news. First, there may well be something very wrong with your hard drive. The good news is that this is not nec...
Summary: I'm having a problem with a hard drive that was compressed, and partitioned. I've reformatted everything, but I've still got half of the space missin...
Summary: PARTITIONING: ...is done to increase file storage efficiency AND to better segregate/manage the files on your computer. The default nonmanagement syst...
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. ...
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