Re: Reformatting

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From: Beck
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 17:22

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"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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".

How do you paste into dos then?

Beck

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