Re: Cannot Format Entire Drive
- From: "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 07:09:11 -0500
Fdisk in Win 98/98SE is the culprit. Find something else to create a FAT32
partition and do the formatting of that parittion.
"phal" <phal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> XP Home originally on drive. I am trying to install Professional.
> Compaq Presario, 2.2 ghz, 200 gig HD, 512 ram.
> I am working on a computer for family friend. It was totally infested with
> spyware, viri, you name it.
> 200 gig hard drive, 59 gig of space being used
> I used a Win 98 boot disk to format.
> I noticed that only the 59 gig was formatted, the other 130 gig would not
> show up as being available.
> I have removed all partitions and reinstalled still getting only 59 gig.
> At the moment I have a 59 gig partition on the computer. I tried to make a
> larger Logical drive but the computer says no space is available to do so.
> I have jacked with computer for years now, but I am no expert by any
means.
> The friends who know more than me say that the 98 Boot disk is not the
> problem.
> Looking for suggestions.
> Thanks....gary
>
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