Ntfs And Fat Help!!!
Oz
03-01-2005, 10:51 PM
h0dy all,
A clients machine is driving me CR@ZY!! It has a borked copy of XP Pro installed on the primary partition, which has the file system as NTFS.
It is a Fujitsu laptop that only has a DVD-ROM drive, so whatever I use I need to make it a bootable CD ROM.
I want to format the drive completely and do a fresh copy of XP.
I have tried everything imaginable - from fdisk to convert to custom utilities on the net to making 2 boot disks in partition magic, converting them to a .img file and burning onto CD and NOTHING HAS WORKED.
PLEASE HELP.
Once again, need a utility available on a bootable CD that recognises and formats NTFS parititons from DOS (or whatever OS/files load with the CD).
:cheers:
A clients machine is driving me CR@ZY!! It has a borked copy of XP Pro installed on the primary partition, which has the file system as NTFS.
It is a Fujitsu laptop that only has a DVD-ROM drive, so whatever I use I need to make it a bootable CD ROM.
I want to format the drive completely and do a fresh copy of XP.
I have tried everything imaginable - from fdisk to convert to custom utilities on the net to making 2 boot disks in partition magic, converting them to a .img file and burning onto CD and NOTHING HAS WORKED.
PLEASE HELP.
Once again, need a utility available on a bootable CD that recognises and formats NTFS parititons from DOS (or whatever OS/files load with the CD).
:cheers:
Oz
03-01-2005, 11:13 PM
Scratch that. Just found the option when booting from the XP CD. :loser:
Going to go and kill myself. 1 hour down the tubes.
Going to go and kill myself. 1 hour down the tubes.
eversio11
03-02-2005, 05:02 PM
note to self: never send machine to Oz for it to get fixed :loser:
Plastic_Fork
03-05-2005, 09:42 AM
Glad you found it. I was going to suggest that first. Then I was going to give you directions how to LOW level format the drive using Debug from DOS. :p
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