Big drive problem

[Guest]

ok heres the symtoms docs:

had luvverly windoze98 on my pc, never had to reinstall it

decided last week to put windoze2000 on so that i could use more 3d apps

2k continually died on me and after my 5th reinstall of it i decided to go back to good old 98

problem is the nt file system didnt let me install it straight away, and 2000 has not got a dos os thats any good

then suddenly it wouldnt recognise my c: drive anymore

so i put the drive as a slave in another pc, and the c:\ partition was 0bytes (should be 10 gig) and d:\ was 10gig

i took the drive to my bro and he tried formatting c: from his pc, which worked

but this is where the problem lies...

i now have an extra partition for some reason after we formatted c:\ and d:\

so ive got c:\(0bytes) d:\(10gig) and e:\(10 gig)

i cant get rid of c:\ and i cant install windoze on a drive that has 0 capacity

i tried fdisk but it seems to freeze before i can do anything to the partition


anyone got any ideas of what i can do cos i need my pc back alive for the weekend

check www.shogoninja.freeserve.co.uk/drives.gif to see what i mean

ta in advance

 

[Guest]

you are going to need to run fdisk, or some other partioning program. run fdisk say yes to the large disk support. then on the main menu press 4 (that will give you a look at your disk sturcture just for intrest) now delete all your partitions, then create whatever stucture you want, format them and you are good to go again.

 

[Crashman]

You can download a drive partitioning program from the drive manufacturer. What I would do is use the program to "write zeros to the drive", that gets rid of everything, then run fdisk from a windows 98 bootdisk, then format.

Suicide is painless...........