Re: Is there a modern Fdisk that sees large NTFS hard drives?

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From: Michael D. Ober (mdo._at_.wakeassoc..com)
Date: 02/23/05


Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:13:27 -0700

Take a look at the Disk Manager in W2K. It will allow you to repartion a
drive (with the same caveots as FDisk).

Mike Ober.

"Frank W." <reply_to_newsgroup@please.ccom> wrote in message
news:3844o7F5id9dfU1@individual.net...
> I'm trying to format or delete NTFS partitions when they got corrupted and
W2k won't see them. Computer
> Management didn't work either.
>
> > What are you trying to do with fdisk and NTFS? Fdisk does not see NTFS
> > logical drives in extended partitions regardless of DOS or fdisk
versions
> > > My Fdisk included in a Win98 boot disk doesn't seem to recognize NTFS
hard drives very well. Is
> there a
> > > more modern version of Fdisk I can boot with on a floppy?
>
>
>



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