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General discussion

reformatting hard drive

Nov 12, 2006 4:09AM PST

I am runnning winxp. I am trying to format my slave drive. I have a win 98 bootdisk floppy . I disconnected my primay drive because I did not want to make any mistakes. When I run fdisk I get these questions asking if I want to enable large disk support. I chose yes. But after that It just goes to a black screen with the line just blinking. Is something wrong with the disk or should I just be more patient.

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FDISK would do that.
Nov 12, 2006 4:19AM PST

It's not that bright about the missing boot drive.

Bob

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reformat
Nov 12, 2006 4:26AM PST

Ok. How do I fix this.

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Why not use FDISK with the drive connected?
Nov 12, 2006 4:29AM PST

Option 5 lets you change the drive and do as you want. I won't teach how to use FDISK since we have web content and it's been around for a few decades.

But it is a rather old program and doesn't work with misconfigured machines. Even if you did that on purpose.

Bob

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Probably easier leaving everything connected in place
Nov 12, 2006 4:35AM PST

using XP disk management.

Start,
Settings,
Control Panel,
Administrative Tools,
Computer Management,
Disk Management,

Your system is probably hanging 'cause it's jumpered as SL and there's no MA.

VAPCMD