did you remember to format the second partition?
Chuck Finnigan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Fortescue" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
> 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-
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Rick Lindstrom
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Tallahassee, FL. USA
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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