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| Thread ID: 30071 | 2003-02-09 22:06:00 | Partition drive format | davelowe@worldnet.co.nz (391) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 119821 | 2003-02-10 02:25:00 | Yes, Gorela but can that be done without removing the extended partion (that is D:\) | roofus (483) | ||
| 119822 | 2003-02-10 02:37:00 | UNNGGG. Expletive, Expletive. :_| Is it really the case that you can't format an NTFS partition to be non-NTFS without removing and recreating the partition? Surely a format programme in an OS which understands (uses) NTFS can do this. Have you been trying with a DOS format (which won't know? I think you should be able to do it with linux. (mkfs not fdisk. Have you got Knoppix. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 119823 | 2003-02-10 02:41:00 | > > I think you should be able to do it with linux. > (mkfs not fdisk. Have you got Knoppix. Okay - See, Now that's just complicating life dude |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 119824 | 2003-02-10 02:49:00 | I didn't complicate things. I'm trying to find a way around the existing complexity. MS and our questioner did that. Another way: mount the disk as a slave in a system running with an NTFS-capable MS OS. It should be able to format the partition. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 119825 | 2003-02-10 02:52:00 | You could install Win2K onto your second partition and format from within Win2K itself. Last time I believe you did it from DOS, but if you're doing it from within doze then it wont let you format the partition that the current OS installation is on :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 119826 | 2003-02-10 03:37:00 | Hey Graham, I just found the link to the Business Cards or BBC (www.lnx-bbc.org) site. It has ISO images of a small linux that contains rescue utilities. The only hassle appears to be that it needs to boot from the cd-rom. Not much good for the older machines. It's not the bootable linux fdisk utility I have come across, but it will most probably do the trick. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 119827 | 2003-02-10 03:53:00 | So much guesswork - much of it erroneous - by homo erectus who think they know . When using MS FDISK it is not possible to remove a primary partition without first removing an installed extended partition which in turn cannot be removed until any logical drives are removed . The few non-Linux methods to remove - or change the structure of - a primary partition without deleting an extended partition and logical drives are: 1 . Use Partition Magic or PartitionIt, or 2 . Use EFDISK or AEFDISK, or 3 . Install an NTFS based operating system and format the primary partition as FAT during the installation . Reformat and install a DOS based operating system . Another option is to backup critical files or transfer them to another physical drive and install from scratch . There are other methods - some of which are mentioned - that are more trouble than what they are worth . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it - Chinese proverb |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 119828 | 2003-02-10 03:59:00 | Try using Ranish Partition Manager to format it - you can use it to swap the file system your HDD uses... Give it a shot - Have a look in google for it! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 119829 | 2003-02-10 04:37:00 | > So much guesswork - much of it erroneous - by homo > erectus who think they know. > > > When using MS FDISK it is not possible to remove a > primary partition without first removing an installed > extended partition which in turn cannot be removed > until any logical drives are removed. I've been saying that all along, finally some one agrees with me. So am i still a homo erectus? sounds kinda rude to me! :-) |
roofus (483) | ||
| 119830 | 2003-02-10 05:51:00 | By 1 . 8 million years ago, one of the early transitional human populations had evolved into a new, fully human species in Africa . Homo erectus were very successful in developing cultural technologies that allowed them to adapt to new environmental opportunities . They were true pioneers . . . . By about half a million years ago, some Homo erectus were able to move into the cooler temperate environmental zones of Asia and Europe for the first time . This migration was made possible by greater intelligence and new cultural technologies . cf Early Human Evolution ( . palomar . edu/homo/Default . htm" target="_blank">anthro . palomar . edu) Promote yourself to homo sapiens - modern man's immediate ancestor |
Merlin (503) | ||
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