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Article #7Re: Hard Drive Partioning Problem
From: Brent Adam Goldspring
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1127fc,e7a92f86f49e1f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid1127fc,public X-Google-Thread: 1082f9,e7a92f86f49e1f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid1082f9,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,e7a92f86f49e1f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: bag05@uow.edu.au (Brent Adam Goldspring) Subject: Re: Hard Drive Partioning Problem Date: 1998/05/12 Message-ID: <bag05.894942188@wumpus> X-Deja-AN: 352418451 References: <894738914.41212@cache.aquanet.co.il> Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop,aol.computers,aus.computers