re: A 2-part question
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1592 messages posted)
Jim,
To format D:\, start your computer with a Win98SE Boot Floppy, preferably one with
Fdisk from Windows ME. Post back if you have questions on the Boot floppy,
At the A:\ prompt, type fdisk, hit enter. Answer yes for large disk support. Select
option 4 to view the current partition information. D:\ should show as 5 GIG
ESC out of Fdisk to the A:\ Prompt and type Format D:\ , hit enter. This will wipe
out the information on D:\ or at least make it unaccessable thru normal means.
It retains the partition as Fat32 via the Yes response to large HDD support. You
should be able to use the space as you wish.
The full 5GIG should show as freespace in My Computer.
DISE files will no longer be accessable on D:\.
Info from my prevvious response will help to Clear DISE from C:\.
On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 11:17 am, Jim Helwig wrote:
>Hi Bob, Thanks for the input. I have posted this same message in several different
>forums (2 posts were done in 2005) and no one had anything they could suggest. What
>you say makes sense. One question - would the format be done in DOS? From what I
>remember of my old dos commands, would it be cd\ then d\, then format? I suppose
>I could live with the DISE on the comp, it only takes up about 25mb out of the 5gb
>in the D: partition. But then again, it'd be nice to reclaim all the space, despite
>the job of reviewing all files. I wonder if I could get a list of all files in DISE
>by doing an explore on the D: partition and pulling up what's there? Honestly, from
>the looks of things, there aren't that many DISE files (I was looking at the D:
partition
>earlier today). Last time I checked, I had about 1.9 GB available on the C: drive,
>so I'm not totally out of space (yet, lol). Thanks again, and let me know about
how
>to format D:
>
>
>
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