wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 I made a boot disk from windows, then have it load on my pc and I type in FDISK and nothing works. I tried FDISK.EXE..Any other fdisks I can use? I need to erase my HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Should I have tried FDISK.COM?? Or what?? I can't get it to show up, ugh! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 it should just be fdisk... you can try some partition programs.. I know there is one that is exactly Partition Magic 7 that runs off of a Linux install cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 i dont think the xp start up has Fdisk in it, try 98 startup disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 See I messed up my HDD earlier. I have EVERYTHING hooked back up the same but for some reason my DVD Rom drive will not read a disk if the HDD is hooked up...I have to somehow reformat my HDD somehow. Cuz when turn on my PC it says computer was shut down wrong blah blah and says start in safe mode and normal and all that I tried them all and al they do is show windows loading real quick then it hits blue screen then restarts. So I need major help on getting this to work. I screwed up by messing with this crap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 i dont think the xp start up has Fdisk in it, try 98 startup disk Where can I get it. Everyone I have tried I extract it to the floppy disk but it will not load. Please help I am desperate I messed my PC up bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammolo Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 all u have to do is boot from your floppy, on command prompo type fdisk, follow the instructions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 here ya go.. http://www.bootdisk.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 all u have to do is boot from your floppy, on command prompo type fdisk, follow the instructions Yeah I stated in my first post, that I tried. it says it's not a valid thing or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 here ya go.. http://www.bootdisk.com/ Yeah I went there. I don't know what to get. Plus I don't know how to put them on a floppy. Help please, I think I wrecked my new PC. I don't know why my DVD Rom will not read if the HDD is hooked up to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 what floppy are u useing?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 what floppy are u useing?? What do you mean what floppy? a floppy disk is a floppy disk..isnt it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 lol yea, but i know the 98 startup disk has fdisk in it, i dont think 2000 are xp doesnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 lol yea, but i know the 98 startup disk has fdisk in it, i dont think 2000 are xp doesnt Yeah I just downloaded the 98 bootdisk from the site..I was using the XP one..which wouldnt load fdisk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 thats because fdisk isnt on the xp disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Yeah found that out. I deleted the partitions and stuff, but now how can I install windows if wont work with the hdd in? I made sure I hooked everything back up right and now when I try to load a disk with the hdd on it wont work..If I unhook the hdd it loads the disk weird! Btw for some reason I don't think this bootdisk read all 250 gig of my space...looked like it said 40 gig it was reading?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 ok little confused, how does it load when the harddrive is unhooked?? do u have 2 HDDs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 It might only ready 137 gigs until you install the os.. that was the capacity barrier that was breached and patched a while back.. try changing the boot order of the devices.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 ok little confused, how does it load when the harddrive is unhooked?? do u have 2 HDDs No idea man! I have one HDD hooked to it and a DVD-rw drive hooked to it. now when the HDD is unhooked it loads disks to install windows..but if I hok the hDD back up it wont load windows disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 ok, u do have the hdd and the dvd drive hooked to 2 differnet cables right?? If not that could cause a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 ok, u do have the hdd and the dvd drive hooked to 2 differnet cables right?? If not that could cause a problem Nope one cable. But you know whats werid I tried using two seperate cables and it still does it! It shouldnt at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 ok, i take it u have 2 IDE controllers are 2 places to hook up a IDE cable, since u are only useing one, 1 of the drives should be set to slave are cable select, if u tried useing 2 cables u would have to change that. which drive is hooked up to the end of the cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 opps, messed up, one set to master and one set to slave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Ok they are both set to there own cables now. I am at "Missing Operating System" screen now. I have my Windows disk in but it's not reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 opps, messed up, one set to master and one set to slave They are on there own cables now. Both Master now and still not loading a disk. VERY ODD that it will load a disk with the HDD unhook... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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