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From: Rob on 27 Feb 2010 02:00 have a laptop which has had windows XP installed and as it has only 128m ram and cant use the second slot the next step is to go retro. Found and made a boot floppy disk which has CD Rom support. When this is loaded I can access fdisk but want to format the HDD drive back from NTFS to FAT32. When I type in format C: - says required parameter missing. How can I go about formatting the HDD. What are the correct parameters. thanks
From: idgat on 27 Feb 2010 02:23 On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:00:46 +1100, Rob <mesamine(a)gmail.com> wrote: >have a laptop which has had windows XP installed and as it has only 128m >ram and cant use the second slot the next step is to go retro. > > >Found and made a boot floppy disk which has CD Rom support. > > >When this is loaded I can access fdisk but want to format the HDD drive >back from NTFS to FAT32. > >When I type in format C: - says required parameter missing. > > >How can I go about formatting the HDD. What are the correct parameters. D/load boot disk called GParted - it's Linux based but you should be able to blow away the existing partition, then re-create it (and re-format it, if you want, before booting from the Me disk. Otherwise, format when booting). -- idgat Compuglobalhypermeganet Inc.
From: Rod Speed on 27 Feb 2010 12:34 Rob wrote: > have a laptop which has had windows XP installed and as it has only > 128m ram and cant use the second slot the next step is to go retro. > Found and made a boot floppy disk which has CD Rom support. > When this is loaded I can access fdisk but want to format the HDD > drive back from NTFS to FAT32. > When I type in format C: - says required parameter missing. > How can I go about formatting the HDD. Do that as part of the install of ME. > What are the correct parameters. Those are the correct params, you must have fucked up the boot floppy. You should be able to boot the ME CD.
From: Rob on 27 Feb 2010 14:13 On 28/02/2010 4:34 AM, Rod Speed wrote: > Rob wrote: > >> have a laptop which has had windows XP installed and as it has only >> 128m ram and cant use the second slot the next step is to go retro. > >> Found and made a boot floppy disk which has CD Rom support. > >> When this is loaded I can access fdisk but want to format the HDD >> drive back from NTFS to FAT32. > >> When I type in format C: - says required parameter missing. > >> How can I go about formatting the HDD. > > Do that as part of the install of ME. > >> What are the correct parameters. > > Those are the correct params, you must have fucked up the boot floppy. > > You should be able to boot the ME CD. > > Yep that's what I though. The format file is on the floppy just don't understand what's happened. Fdisk will show the partitions but I can't delete them either. When I go to format it shows no room left on the HDD as its still ntfs formatted. Why can't I write over the ntfs format with FAT32.
From: Rod Speed on 27 Feb 2010 18:11
Rob wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Rob wrote >>> have a laptop which has had windows XP installed and as it has only >>> 128m ram and cant use the second slot the next step is to go retro. >>> Found and made a boot floppy disk which has CD Rom support. >>> When this is loaded I can access fdisk but want to format the HDD >>> drive back from NTFS to FAT32. >>> When I type in format C: - says required parameter missing. >>> How can I go about formatting the HDD. >> Do that as part of the install of ME. >>> What are the correct parameters. >> Those are the correct params, you must have fucked up the boot floppy. >> You should be able to boot the ME CD. > Yep that's what I though. > The format file is on the floppy just don't understand what's happened. > Fdisk will show the partitions but I can't delete them either. That boot floppy must be serious fucked. You can download good ones from http://www.bootdisk.com/ > When I go to format it shows no room left on the HDD as its still ntfs formatted. Thats normal, dos boot floppys dont understand ntfs, its only supported by Win2k and later. > Why can't I write over the ntfs format with FAT32. You can, you just have to delete the partition and create it again because its ntfs formatted currently. |