[mexican(Aus)]

Hello there,
I just formatted my 40gig Hard Drive and then partitioned it . 8 gigs for the OS and the rest for games and stuff only the partition for games and stuff has not shown up in "My Computer".

Thankyou for taking the time to read my thread.

 

[Zvalkor]

Welcome to the forum. :wave:

Did you format the HD before or after you partitioned it? Did you use fdisk?

 

[mexican(Aus)]

I formatted it and then made the partition.
Can I make a working startup disk with the hd partition missing as my 98 startup disk has was erased as well as the hd partition's dissapearance?{something strange has happened I think!)

 

[SPEEDO]

Welcome to the forums mexican(Aus)........................

You can go here and download a Win 98 startup disk. Make sure that you read the instructions on how to create the disk.

 

[mexican(Aus)]

Is losing a partition a common occurance?

Do you think I should use a partition recovery program?

 

[mexican(Aus)]

Ok now I have tried to format 3 floppy disks and Im getting an error message Disk error on track21,0 head,floppy error

Its all goin wrong

 

[SPEEDO]

Do you have another floppy drive to try?

 

[mexican(Aus)]

no

 

[SPEEDO]

What machine are you trying to format the floppies on?

 

[Doonz]

am i following this right??

you formated then created the partitions ???

Run Fdisk and see what partitions are there...see if you can create another partition in Fdisk with the remaining space...then when you try to access it for the first time windows should format it for you

 

[SPEEDO]

Good one Doonz! How did I miss that..................

 

[mexican(Aus)]

Yes I had to format my hard drive to remove XP from my syatem.

My friend did the partition as I'm not farmiliar with fdisk
He knows about computers and fdisk , He did everything right
This is a system problem not human error.

There are 2 partitions in fdisk for drive C:\ Its just thet only 1 is active at a time and partition 1 has the drive letter C:\ and partition 2 does not have a drive letter

 

[Doonz]

look here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q255867

you kind of want it to be a user error...cause if it is a hardware error there is nothing short of replacing the drive that you can do on your end

 

[mexican(Aus)]

Ok I created a logical drive and then formatted and now it has appeared in "mY COMPUTER" Yippie

Thankyou all very much for your patience and good advice!

 

[Doonz]

Hey Mex...

No problem glad to be of service...stick around these boards and youll be helping other with patience in no time:winkgrin: