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Started by Yappics
Mon, 06 May 2002 06:16
Reformatting
Author: Yappics
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 06:16
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 06:16
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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.
Re: Reformatting
Author: kony
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:03
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:03
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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). Dave __________________________ Please Reply to Newsgroup,
Re: Reformatting
Author: philo
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:38
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:38
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it could very well have been caused by a virus and since you have to enter the volume number (which is corrupted) fdisk will not allow you to delete the partition what you can do is go to www.bootdisk.com and in their utility downloads get aefdisk.exe copy it to your boot floppy and instead of runninf fdisk run aefdisk/delall the delall switch should completely wipe the drive then you can run fdisk from dos and recreate your partition(s) reboot and format
Re: Reformatting
Author: Beck
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:42
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:42
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"kony" <kony_@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:3cd62a88.4422648@netnews.insightbb.com... > 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
Re: Reformatting
Author: kony
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 13:24
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 13:24
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 13:42:41 +0100, "Beck" <tangybeck@hotmail.com> wrote: >If he cant recreate the symbols then he cannot delete the partition as the >volume label has to be entered to delete. > >Beck Hmm, maybe just as easy to put into a working system and relabel/format in windows. Oh, there may be a better way... Format /autotest The /autotest switch will format without any further user input. Dave __________________________ Please Reply to Newsgroup,
Re: Reformatting
Author: CBFalconer
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 15:37
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". -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address!
Re: Reformatting
Author: Beck
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 17:22
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 17:22
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"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3CD69280.C2EE2068@yahoo.com... > 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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