Fdisk?

[DJ Smak]

ok my AMD 333 crashed last week, rebbooted and it said operating system not found...so i go to reformat and it starts and then aborts and says HDD not found, use F disk....does that mean my HDD is shot? What is F disk?

[amdperson]

The partition on the hdd is probably corupt. what hard drive you got.

Fdisk is a utility used to delete and create partitions. You can find it on a windows 98 or ME boot up disk

[DJ Smak]

i have a 4.3 Gig Seagate HDD, it was using windows 98, but i dont have the bootupdisk, just the software application recovery cd and the reformat cd, is there any way to save it,?

[bulk88]

Don't fdisk the drive but you will need it. Boot from a dos bootdisk and type in "fdisk /mbr" Nothing else. then reboot. This only works if the drive has a filing system still on it (you can read it, but not boot from it). Also check if your floppy drive has something in it.

[DJ Smak]

im a n00b to this stuff, where do i get a dos bootdisk?

[Tyranos]

try www.ntfs.com (if you're using win2k or xp and use ntfs disk formatting)


This place's dos boot link works: http://www.putergeek.com/downloads/#dos_boot

Should scan for virii before you run it though. JIC...

Good luck.

[DJ Smak]

i was usin windows 98, dont see it there on that site, if ya have any more links it would be much appreciated. Also do i need a cd burner
to get this?
also its a FAT 32 HDD

[Tyranos]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm << I'd grab the newest dos boot version. You don't need a cd burner, just a set of 3.5inch floppies.