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Friday, October 10, 2003 at 8:42 pm
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Posted by Jerry (872 messages posted)

Hi Craig, I'm back.

Apparently the previous owner of your computer had WIN2000 or WINNT or WINXP on it, and you have a hard drive formatted for NTFS ("New Tehnology File System")(thank you, Bill Gates).

This can be fixed with FDISK, which is part of the BOOTDISK you made yesterday. (I had to take some time to test some FDISK things, because I don't use it anymore -- I like PartionMagic for DOS because it's so easy to use, but I'm not going to send you out to buy PM for this one operation that you need.)

BE CAREFUL! FDISK can be dangerous. In the old DOS help guide, the first sentence is: "Do not experiment with FDISK." So we're just going to take this one step at a time. Today let's just use FDISK to examine the current setup of your hard drive, and then we'll decide what you want to do with it.

Boot up with your BOOTDISK.
You'll see "A:\>"
Type "FDISK" (enter)
A screenful of warning messages will appear. (Yikes!) The last line says "Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...?" The default shows as "[N]", so just press ENTER.

NOTE: This line about the "Large Disk Support" may not appear if your total hard drive is smaller than 512MB (unlikely). I didn't have anything with a small hard drive to test with, so I don't know what alternate message might appear. I suspect you'd jump right ahead to the MENU.

The MENU appears.
Select "4. Display partition information" and press ENTER.

Now, write down everything on the screen, and post it back here on the forum. That's all we're going to do today.

Press ESCAPE to back up to the MENU.
Press ESCAPE again to quit FDISK.

Jerry