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Re: Hard Drive Partioning Problem

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From: Brent Adam Goldspring
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 00:00
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Do you have your win95 emergency start-up disk that it creates when installing?
If so then boot your computer with that, it has fdisk and format on it i think.
You should be able to get fat32 installed on to your drive.  If you don't
have the disk then find someone to give you a copy - it must be from win95B or later.

"Brian Almquist" <bdalm@aquanet.co.il> writes:

>Greetings:

>I got some problems with my computer for some time, I am stationed
>(military) in the middle east and we often loose power,  I suspect this
>damaged the startup files in Win95 because I often would have to restart my
>system a couple times before it would complete set up (I tried reinstalling
>windows with no fix of the problem)

>After a lot of fiddling I ended up with a more damaged system than I began
>with.  Having all the program disks for my system I made the decision to
>reformat the hard drive.  What I have forgotten is the DOS commands to
>reestablish the partioning and so forth.  I have a 4.2 GB fixed drive and
>have tried going through "FDISK" to get it to recognize the large drive
>using FAT32 but have had zero luck.

>What do I need to do to get the system to recognize this drive without
>having to divide up the disk to 3 drives.  I know the system is FAT32
>capable because before my problems, the drive was recognized as a single
>large drive.

>Thanks any assistance you can give will be great, over here the internet is
>my only connection to any assistance.

>Brian Almquist
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From: bag05@uow.edu.au (Brent Adam Goldspring)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Partioning Problem
Date: 1998/05/12
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