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| 44614 | 2002-04-19 10:12:00 | New HD, thought I could create and delete partitions as a test run, but now have d: e: in memory some where virtual ? How can I clean the drive of partitions. I have even deleted the primary and yet I can still change to drive d: and e: |
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| 44615 | 2002-04-19 10:46:00 | assuming you have no other hardrive plugged in, then simply go to the delete option in fdisk and do them all ;-) d could be the cd drive and e is the ramdrive stored in ram. |
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| 44616 | 2002-04-19 10:46:00 | By the sounds of what you are saying you start your start up disk with CD ROM support which is not required for fdisk and formatting. Instead of me going on about it check this site: www.compguystechweb.com |
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| 44617 | 2002-04-19 10:54:00 | Hi ,is d: e: displayed under windows?? when you add new drives to windows os it assigns the drive letters as such c: = primary part. 1st disk d: = prim. part second disk e: = secondary part. 1st disk f:= secondary part. 2nd disk and so on. One of the best partition managers is called ranish partion manager , I think www.tucows.com has it.. Its free and only about 200KB download. Just extract it to a floppy and restart in msdos. you can clear the record files of your partions. Just use the wizard supplied with it and it will make all your partitions primary dos partions so that you can change one without suffing up the others.. |
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| 44618 | 2002-04-19 10:54:00 | e: italic; "> Hi ,is d: e: displayed under windows?? when you add new drives to windows os it assigns the drive letters as such c: = primary part. 1st disk d: = prim. part second disk e: = secondary part. 1st disk f:= secondary part. 2nd disk and so on. One of the best partition managers is called ranish partion manager , I think www.tucows.com has it.. Its free and only about 200KB download. Just extract it to a floppy and restart in msdos. you can clear the record files of your partions. Just use the wizard supplied with it and it will make all your partitions primary dos partions so that you can change one without suffing up the others.. |
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| 44619 | 2002-04-19 11:26:00 | dir d: gives message Volume in drive D is MS-RAMDRIVE. It's 2gig big How can I ditch it? |
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| 44620 | 2002-04-20 04:44:00 | From a DOS prompt, type 'fdisk /status'. Write down the response, and post it here. | Guest (0) | ||
| 44621 | 2002-04-20 04:45:00 | From a DOS prompt, type 'fdisk /status'. Write down the response, and post it here. | Guest (0) | ||
| 44622 | 2002-04-20 05:23:00 | fdisk /status shows Disk Drive Mbytes Free Usage 1 38162 100% c: 38162 Under fdisk I played around at the start thinking I could delete. But I seemed to have lost 2 gig of my 40. Showed all partitions had been deleted so I created one primary using 100% and the above figures is what I have now. Cheers Jeff |
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