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May 19th 2002 | #48821 Report |
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ok i decided to reformat my computer cause i was getting some major slowdown and i was getting some norton errors saying that the program had created and illegal operation and must be shut down but when i would click the ok thing i would get a huge blue screen saying "kernal syntek error" or something along those lines....anyways i went to reformat and i put in the startup disk and when the chose with cd rom support or with out i chose without...which i thought was right....then when the command prompt came up i just typed "Format c:" and then it started formating well a few minutes later i would get an error saying "formatting error format terminated" so i tried and tried again finally it worked once and then i went to format my other partishions (not sure one spelling) there was c: d: and e: well i could only format d: and couldnt fine e: so there was that problem..... Im wondering if i did something wrong...and if so what.... and is there a way that i can just clear the entire hard drive of partishions and everything someone told me to just get like a huge magenet and slap that on there but i wasnt sure if that was going to work the way i needed to or if it would just hurt everything even more..... if you can help that would be great..... ![]() |
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May 19th 2002 | #48838 Report |
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anyone?....i really need some help...
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May 20th 2002 | #48877 Report |
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Boot from your system CD and initialize the drive from there. I wouldn't mess with magnets ![]() |
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Jul 14th 2002 | #58601 Report |
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I'll try to help. first of all, if u would format the whole hard drive. use the fdisk command. I think u can have this if u create a bootup disk then I think that its there. In fdisk it will also ask how many partition but don;t ask me how. hope I'd help in a way.
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Jul 14th 2002 | #58623 Report |
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Oh ya.. do get Partition Magic, and you'll be straight up crazy to slap that magnet on your harddisk.
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Jul 14th 2002 | #58624 Report |
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What OS are you going to reinstall, because I know that on XP you don't need a startup disk. Instead you boot from the CD-ROM and it contains a wizard to create/remove partitions and format.
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Jul 15th 2002 | #58762 Report |
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well, there are some people that dont use xp yet right? besides using fdisk or partition pro bootup disk if he have will be easier. I dont know I havent tried xp yet.
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Jul 15th 2002 | #58772 Report |
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magnets... hahahaha. xp has fdisk or something like it built in, so that's all you'll need. |
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Jul 16th 2002 | #59113 Report |
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how big is your hard drive? b/c if its less than 22.4 gigs, then you can use ibm's wipe utility (which fits on a floppy) to do a complete low level format (resets your hard drive to all 0's) it also drops the assignments for bad sectors....
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Jul 16th 2002 | #59157 Report |
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dont worry... i actually fixed this a long time ago.... sorry to have kept the thread going.... everything worked out.. thanks anyways..
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