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| Thread ID: 30071 | 2003-02-09 22:06:00 | Partition drive format | davelowe@worldnet.co.nz (391) | Press F1 |
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| 119811 | 2003-02-09 22:06:00 | I need help to reformat C: drive on a partitioned HDD. I had a C: & D: drive on the HDD, installed win2k on C: with HTFS file system. I then did what I thought was a format on C: but it formatted the D: instead. I've since got the data back on D: (thanks Mike) now I need to reformat C: without losing D: drive data again. How do I go about it correctly this time???? Thanks Dave |
davelowe@worldnet.co.nz (391) | ||
| 119812 | 2003-02-09 22:08:00 | I would use FDisk to delete the first partition and then format it using.. wait for it: format c: This will make it FAT32 but you can later convert it to NTFS - not HTFS :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 119813 | 2003-02-09 23:29:00 | Hold on deleting the first partion would result in the MBR for both the physical and extended partion being deleted/changed wouldn't it? Also you can't delete the primary partion without removing the extended partion. Am i not correct? This is with Fdisk anyway. Don't know what the scenario is with Partion Magic. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 119814 | 2003-02-09 23:58:00 | Hi Roofus, Win2K doesn't appear to write to the mbr. Lets put it this way, if you fdisk /mbr Win2K still boots :) I can't see the point of using fdisk as this is purely for altering the partitions. Use a Win98 boot disk and from a:/ c: then format c: That should do the trick. Go here (www.drd.dyndns.org) to get a boot disk image. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 119815 | 2003-02-10 01:14:00 | Originaly thats what I did, format C: What it did though was format the D: drive, something to do with the 98 boot disk not reading the NTFS that C: was based on. Anymore thoughts..... Dave |
davelowe@worldnet.co.nz (391) | ||
| 119816 | 2003-02-10 01:41:00 | Steered you a bit wrong there :0 Start the computer with the 98 boot disk. Then FDisk from the prompt. Once in FDisk select option 4 which should be show partition info. It should still show the info even though it's NTFS. Then esc and format c: I'm just doing this at the moment on a HD with NTFS Win2K as the first 1G partition and about 600MB FAT32 partition as D: I'll let you know what happens :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 119817 | 2003-02-10 01:47:00 | Absolutely right. The sodding thing's still there ?:| So much easier using linux FDisk ;) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 119818 | 2003-02-10 01:58:00 | its because fdisk is well an fdisk aka FAT32Disk. It doesn't know what ntfs or others are. I think you will need to look at partioning software on the internet. try http://www.download.com |
roofus (483) | ||
| 119819 | 2003-02-10 02:02:00 | I would FDisk it so that it'll get rid of the NTFS partition and then it'd be safe to: format c: Ive never tried going format c: if C: iis s'posed to be NTFS?! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 119820 | 2003-02-10 02:22:00 | Sorry Chilling, :8} Looks like you were spot on and need to delete the non dos partition to be able to format it. Fdisk is such a painful utility! I thought I'd check out Fips, but that just came back with the can't read a non dos blah blah. Oh well, it's been fun playing around with it :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
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