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Unable to locate HDD volume label -- HELP!

by jacksimp Feb 12, 2009 9:58AM PST

I have an older Toshiba Presario 1255 laptop and the resident Win2k OS seems corrupted. I want to start from fresh by getting rid of the FAT16 partition and repartition the 4 gig harddrive with either FAT32 extended or NTFS. However, when I go to delete the partition using fdisk, it asks for the 'volume label'. I type in what the label states it is in the system information but fdisk will not accept it (no match) and I can't carry on with the repartition. Note: there was originally a (text) volume label attached to this, the only HDD -- it wasn't left blank.

My question is: where can I go within the registry to find out the 'true' volume label info? -thanks.

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I had that happen to me.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Feb 12, 2009 10:55PM PST

It was some corruption on the hard disk and not a registry issue. I limped along until the project ended then executed the disk wipe and reinstall plan.

Sorry but some corruption appears to be uncorrectable.
Bob

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still unable to find volume label on HDD
by jacksimp Feb 12, 2009 11:46PM PST

That's what I intend to do is doing a reinstall by first wiping the disk using fdisk (which normally gets rid of any data) then reformatting it. To repeat, my problem is in completing the fdisk task of repartitioning it. I need to know what the 'true' volume label of the disk is first -- unless there is another way around this problem??

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I had to go beyond fdisk.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Feb 12, 2009 11:52PM PST

I used DBAN (Danger! Power Tool!) to cleanse the drive and then it went find as I booted up the Windows 2000 SP1 CD and used the Windows 2000 installer to do the partitioning.

Fdisk could create trouble.
Bob

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FDISK does not "wipe" the drive nor does it ...
by Edward ODaniel Feb 15, 2009 1:04AM PST

"get rid of the data (any disk editor will show you this).

If your plan is to "wipe" the drive then re-install because you are selling or giving the computer away and want data to be pretty much irrecoverable without extraordinary measures follow Bob's suggestion about making use of DBAN.

If you are only going to do a fresh installation and continue to use the computer and drive yourself all you have to do is pop the installation CD into the computer, boot from that CD, then take the option to repartition the drive as it is presented.

This will step you through the process -
http://www.windows2000.windowsreinstall.com/installoldhdd/multipageindex.htm

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