Re: FDISK FOOL
- From: "Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:35:06 -0400
"JC" <JC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there,
I was having loads of prblems with trying to reinstall windows (do a
search
for jc) and I,m not sure where i got the idea, but i ran fdisk on my
computer
and now i have major problems. For a start I wasn't sure which options to
press and i'm ashamed to say i tried all or most of them and now my
computer
can't even read from drive c. The plan was to wipe the drive and then
reinstall windows. After I ran the dreaded fdisk thingy , from a floppy
disk,
i tried to go to drive c and i got this message,..............
"invalid media type reading drive c.
That's because there is no partition after running FDISK, unless you also
created a new partition. Then, you have to format it.
Normally this is done from the XP boot disk, where the utility is called
diskpart.
There can be another reason for this message - you booted from a win9x
diskette and ran fdisk, right? Your XP disk was most likely formatted as
NTFS, and Win9x boot diskettes cannot read NTFS-formatted partitions. But
if you ran fdisk, the partition was gone anyway.
I could acces the xp setup disk from
drive x: " but when i tried to run this i got this message........."this
program cannot be run in dos mode.........."
You don't run setup that way. Boot from the CD.
It is possible to run setup from a dos prompt, but IIRC the command is
actually 'winnt'. .
Please, please help.This is my daughters computer and i am now the most
hated dad in the UK.
Ta for all help.
JC
Set the system to boot from the CD, do so, and do a clean installation
(though you have no choice at this point). Follow the steps presented to
you carefully.
You will have to create a partition *first* and you will be led to this.
You might remove the partition you maybe made with fdisk and create a new
one, the full size of the disk. You'll be back up in a few hours. All
her data and settings are, of course, gone.
HTH
-pk
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