re: Fdisk & Format
Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 6:35 am
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
EMERGENCY BOOT DISK FREEWARE
It is quicker and easier to copy the data from her old drive over to your computer
and burn to CD as you have done. Then run fdisk on her old drive and delete the Primary
DOS drive and make a new one, set it active and format it.
Just what I need for an old DELL 486/25s that was sold with a 128Mb drive and Windows
3·1 on FAT16.
Mac
WINDOWS SUPPORT RAM
On Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 1:02 am, Paul Alexander wrote:
>An elderly friend who was given a computer has asked me for help because it was
getting
>very slow. It turns out that the hard drive, which is only 550 Mb has been compressed
>and there is only 512 Kb free space. The o s was windows 98. Unfortunately the
rest
>of the computer was just as old and has died. I have got her another 2nd user system
>which runs windows M E.
>How can I uncompress her old hard drive which has some stuff she wants to keep?
>Besides the drive itself I also have the contents stored on my hard drive so I could
>burn it onto a cd if needs.
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