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| 186341 | 2003-10-24 23:28:00 | I am having many problems with windows so have decided to do as suggested in the 'Scorched Earth' article in the latest PCWorld. I have Red Hat linuz 6.2 on my second harddrive and want to remove it so that I can use that drive to back-up files because both my CD-ROMS are having problems, probably caused by a currupted sustem. Ihave restored the mbr but of course windows does no regognize the secound harddrive. How can I get windows to see this seond drive. Any help would be much appreciated. Johnfb. |
Johnfb (2676) | ||
| 186342 | 2003-10-24 23:37:00 | If you're using Win2K/XP, Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage Select the Local Disk management and you can change the file-system in there. If you're using 95/98/ME you'll need to make a Boot Disk and run Fdisk after you've booted from it. Delete the "Non-DOS" partition and re-create a FAT/FAT32 partition and you should be peachy :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 186343 | 2003-10-25 00:24:00 | Thank you very much for your help, I will have a go. | Johnfb (2676) | ||
| 186344 | 2003-10-25 20:47:00 | Hi Chilling_Silently I have tried what you suggested but could not find anything about non-dos partitions. The computer just does not recognize the second harddrive, any sugestions before I go crazier than I am already. Johnfb. |
Johnfb (2676) | ||
| 186345 | 2003-10-25 21:06:00 | I am guessing that you have 98 or ME then, and the fdisk didn't detect any non-DOS partitions? Try booting from your Red Hat installation disk and follow all the steps until you get to the "Disk Partitioning Setup", and then select the option to manually partition with fdisk. Just remove all partitions (make sure you have the slave drive selected) and once that is done, cancel out of the installation process. See if this helps. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 186346 | 2003-10-25 22:01:00 | Unfortunately my Red hat CD will not boot, I suspect that the cdrom is not working properly and it won't boot from my R/W cdrom. My windows is ME which I forgot to mention Is there no other way of persuading windows to recognize the second hard drive? |
Johnfb (2676) | ||
| 186347 | 2003-10-25 22:16:00 | Could you not make your second drive the primary and only one connected. Make sure it is set a master - normally no link - Boot from floppy - at the prompt A:\> type FORMAT C:/S. This will clear the drive & copy system files across. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 186348 | 2003-10-25 22:40:00 | It is a bit unfortunate that your installation CD won't boot. Just to confirm we are on the right track here, when you ran MS-DOS fdisk and tried to delete the partitions, were you getting messages like this: You can't delete the partition because it has logical drives in it There are no logical drives defined I had this same problem with a ME/linux system, but I was able to use my installation disk to scrub the partitions and then use MS-DOS fdisk normally after that. You might want to try this (www.montagar.com) unless someone can suggest a better method or tool to clear the linux partitions. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 186349 | 2003-10-25 22:46:00 | The trouble is that the second drive is not there as far as fdisk is concerned, any other suggestions? | Johnfb (2676) | ||
| 186350 | 2003-10-25 22:55:00 | Did you try my suggestion? Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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