Re: Reformatting

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From: CBFalconer
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 15:37

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kony wrote:
> "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).

That is likely to run into the same problem, with bigger data
risks.  Try cutting and pasting from the display of the "funny
character label".

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