re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 4:41 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) See if the drive manufacturer has a diagnostics utility to check the drive. Then wipe/zero it out and try again. Check the BIOS and turn off any boot sector virus protection also. If it still doesn't work, you most likely have a bad drive. On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:03 am, Daniel Dub wrote: >No, it does not, it just tells me "I MUST restart my computer, and I MUST format >the drive AFTER I restart" > >Then it put me back on the command line from the floppy "A:" > >so I type "restart" (I've also tried just holding the laptop power button) > >Both don't work. Written in response to: re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Daniel Dub: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:03 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Daniel Dub: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 7:15 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Keith Stanier: Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 4:59 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Daniel Dub: Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 7:57 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Keith Stanier: Tue, Oct 16, 2007, 4:38 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Daniel Dub: Tue, Oct 16, 2007, 8:03 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (C K: Tue, Oct 16, 2007, 4:41 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (bob wells: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 2:23 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Joe Hepperle: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 1:26 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Ed: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 8:22 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Daniel Dub: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 4:34 pm) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (bob wells: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 12:27 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Ed: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 10:49 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (GTR0007: Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 3:39 am) re: Partitioning/FDISK not working. (Ed: Fri, May 16, 2008, 8:56 am) re: Another solution... (Joe Hepperle: Sat, May 17, 2008, 1:09 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum