Re: Reformatting

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From: Beck
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:42

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"kony" <kony_@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 06 May 2002 06:16:47 GMT, "Yappics"
> <jyates@commonfolknews.com> wrote:
>
> >When attempting to reformatt my harddrives, my volume label consist of
funny
> >characters that I have no idea on how to reproduce exactly to tell the
> >system which volume to reformatt.  Has my harddrive crashed?  Any help
would
> >be appreciated.  MS Website has no answers to this problem.
> >
> >
>
> That could be a physical problem, but more likely only logical...
> Not enough info to determine a problem that won't be solved by simply
> using FDISK to delete the affected partition and then recreate it,
> before formatting (try that).

If he cant recreate the symbols then he cannot delete the partition as the
volume label has to be entered to delete.

Beck

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