Fucking Pissed!
 

I got a virus and i had to format C: but i didnt have my Win98 CD so i called DELL and had them walkme through w/o the CD.. Well mah hard drive was partitioned and when they "helped" me.. my computer no longer shows my 4GB D: drive.. Any idea what do do??

Tried to "Format C:" again with win98 cd but it didnt help..

Bunky

hammer.

thouht i could dumb founded yah by pre-using "Format C:" amp u always seem to catch us off guard..

anyone with real help?

bunky

You need a win98 start up disk. Since you don't have the cd, you can't make one. I thought that I saw one on the web somewhere that you could download, might want to search if you can. DOS will not be able to see all 4gb of that drive. The most it can handle is partitions of 2gb





Norton anti-virus 2002 - $50. It's like a condum for your pc.

fdisk and redifine your partitions. Then reinstall with you OS.

fdisk?


bunky

Learn how to make a Boot Disk..

And Boot Disk is Diff. than a start up disk.

Too late now I think'ie...

If and when you learn how to make a Boot Disk...
don't forget to put your CD driver on it and boot with it....make sure you can get to your CD drive...

Too late now I think'ie...

Grab something like partition magic, there's a couple sharewares out there that do the same thing. They'll let you get into your system and make it recognize the lost partition.

You know a person isn't getting any of them can't spell condom right :321GFY

R3K wins the prize on this thread ....

All you need to do is boot using the win98 startup floppy ... from the DOS prompt type in 'FDISK', and reconfigure your partitions.

very simple procedure :thumbsup

Also, any of the proprietary floppy disks packaged with hard drives these days can do the job, too.

dude,,, you shouldn't of bought a dell:1orglaugh

with fdisk tells me i cant create an extented dos partition and i cant create a logical partition bc there isnt enough space :helpme

If you know who made your drive then download their tools from the website and use that disk to erase your drive. This takes longer to do for a Seagate drive than Maxtor, Western Digital or IBM.

You should be good to go after a full erase.

i dont wanna erase the drive.. when i did it before i did it from dos after i reformat C: should i wait and do this again?

bunky

partition magic. create a secondary logical partition.

:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh

:GFYBand

Dell sucks just like a compaq

You should've bought an Alieware system - http://www.alienware.com

bunky,

If you have lost your partition, you will have to run fdisk. Once inside fdisk, view your partitions as you may now have only one partition. You will have to delete that main partition and create new ones.

THE KEY IS FDISK.:thumbsup

Grrrrr :feels-hot

dont anoy compaq they are great, even my e500 "except for the lack of ram/cpu power/storage space etc" :GFYBand

partition magic is the best to use

fdisk will not read the complete disk

somehow it wasnt formatted to dos
and fdisk uses dos to read the drive size

on second thought i think there are freeware programs that linux gurus use to partition there hard drives and you can specify to turn the drive back to a dos partition, but i havent touched linux in a few years

Alienware are just reselling shit with their logo on it. Its a complete rip off.