More on this issue:
I was able to get my disk formated using the delpart utility and the maxtor
utilities.
However, in doing this, I partitioned my C drive into 2 20G partitions
(Computer called them C and E, with D drive being my 2nd HD). Now, I only
see the C (20G) and D(20G), but I don't see the E (2nd partition of the 40G
HD). In fdisk, I see it and it looks healthy and as if it will show up in
WinME. I hate to ask, but did I forget an important step?
TIA
Marshall
-----Original Message-----
From: Fortescue, Marshall
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:10 PM
To: 'Rick Lindstrom'; 'PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List'
Cc: Fortescue, Marshall
Subject: RE: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
Thanks for the advice for delpart.exe, Zap, and Wipe....I ended up trying
delpart.exe...It did seem to work, but I still have garbage on the drive. I
will try the maxtor disk utilities. If nothing works, I'll trying driving
my car over it!
Thanks again
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Lindstrom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:23 PM
To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
Cc: Marshall Fortescue
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
At 08:45 AM 6/19/2002 -0400, Marshall Fortescue wrote:
>I have a computer running XP/WinME, 256M, 366MgHz....
>
>I have a second HD that has been broken up into 4 partitions. I am
>unable to format the drive (wipe everything off and start over) using
>Partition Magic, Windows Format from the explorer, and fdisk/format
>from DOS.
(ETC)
There is a DOS utility called "delpart.exe" that I believe originally came
from one of the early NT4.0 versions. I have used it a few times on
partitions that nothing else would touch, and it killed them every time.
It is available for free download here:
http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm
HTH-
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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL. USA
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