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| Thread ID: 12825 | 2001-11-12 04:47:00 | Can't seem to format partitions | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 24241 | 2001-11-12 04:47:00 | Recently I have decided to format my main C: partition. My drive is 37GB partitioned into one 7GB for C: and 30GB for D: Windows 98SE is loaded on the C: drive. I try to format the hard drive by using a Win98 Starup disk. After reaching MSDOS a large message comes up informing me that my drive does not seem to have a FAT partition when in the Win98 FAT32 converter it says both are FAT32. I used Fdisk to first partition my hard drives. After going into MSDOS though, it cannot see any of the hard drive partitions. How is this possible and how can I format my C: partition without loosing data from my D: partition. I could backup the contents of D: with my CD writer but it probably still would not show the HD in the MSDOS so I am not able to format my drive if it does not exist in there. |
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| 24242 | 2001-11-12 05:54:00 | Try making a startup disk from the running system, and booting from that. If you are using an original installation floppy disk, it might not match the HD now. If you 'converted' the hard disk partition, it won't. | Guest (0) | ||
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