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Re: FAT 32 Conversion Problem
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Carlos Cordeiro <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:32:24 -0000
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Try to run fdisk, delete the partitions, create new partitions and then
format the hard drive again, it will work, if it doesn4t try a Low Level
format if your motherboard as that feature, good luck

Carlos Cordeiro
http://www.itqb.unl.pt

-----Original Message-----
From: graynes <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 1:37 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] FAT 32 Conversion Problem


> Trying to convert a 1 gig WD hard drive to FAT 32 in Windows 98, I get the
error
>message "Hard Drive has bad sectors - Cannot convert drive with bad sectors
to
>FAT 32."
> Does anyone know of a fix  or work around for this?
>Thanks.
>
>Gary Raynes
>
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