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routine format gone terribly wrong, pls help

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minus1969

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hey-

i decided that my HD was fragmented and disorganized beyone repair, so I decide to format. I've done it before, just on my new michine. I make my backups, get all of my windows stuff together and I'm ready to go. However, windows [in some evil, telepathic sort of way] senses that I'm jumping ship and crashes and will now not boot. I think that I may have deleted something by mistake while backing up. Long story short; I can now only boot to DOS and I have tried every way that I know to format C with no success. Any help would be appreciated as I'm ready to shoot myself in the foot out of aggrivation. Thanks,

minus1969
 
Have you tried using a boot disk (the lone reason for floppy drives)? I really can't see why formatting shouldn't work from there, unless there is some (physical?) damage to the HD.
If everything else fails, do a low-level format, that simply has to work unless the drive is permanently damaged - I'm sure some of the guys here have the URL of a low level formatter.
 
Well since you're online and talking here I'll pass along the link that several people have posted here... www.bootdisk.com... should be able to find something there. You can probably use a windows 98 CD too if you have one... all you need is to be able to boot and use format or fdisk.
 
as if today couldn't get any worse...I'm now surfing without a mouse because the backup computer has been raped by siblings. I successfully formatted C:, only to have it tell me that the maximum partition size is 2 GB...any with a 30 GB drive, that ain't happening. If anyone can help PLEASE reply or I'll be forced to bring it into _eugh_ CompUSA...thanks


minus1969
 
Did you....
Download the bootdisk from the link above, boot with it, run FDISK, enable large disk support, delete all partitions (you don't have any partitions with data do you?), make one large (or what you want), make active, exit, reboot with bootdisk and format c:

The KA7 bios should easily handle a 30G drive...it's not that old.
 
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