DOS :S

[Trip]

Hay all i got a problem with DOS...

I need to format my Drive... So i put in my win 98 start up disk and run with out CD-ROM help... try to format my D drive and it comes up with
"Format not supported on drive D:
Format terminated"

so i have a look in fdisk... I try to delete the partition and it says
"Cannot delete Extended partition wile logical drives exist"
and there is no logical drives there (so it says)

Anyone has this problem before??  Need help...

BTW the drive does show in windows with CS on it…
I sys’ed…  don’t work

                    ^^^^^hope that makes sense^^^^^

[OldBloke]

Is it NTFS?

Was XP, W2K or NT4 previously installed?

[Trip]

XP is installed

and no NTFS (if i guess right is it Network Format Supported???  

[Trip]

its had XP on there loads of times.. its my formating PC  

[smilodon]

You either have an NTFS partition on it or a linux/Unix one. You have had XP installed on the drive, so I assume its a NTFS partition. Try the following command line

FDISK 1/LOG:250 - Command line to create a 250 logical drive

Now you have a logical drive...I hope. Now make fdisk delete this drive and then you should be able to delete the extended partition too.

the command FDISK 1 refers to the master drive. FDISK 2 would point to the slave should it be fitted.

A good link is here http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm#04

You could also download a Linux boot disk from the Net, and use that to dump the partitions then reboot with a Dos disk and create new ones.   Using a Linux boot disk actually works as I have done it myself. The Fdisk command is theoretically sound but you'd be a guinea pig !!!

Hope this helps

[Trip]

Thanks allot mate i just did it and it worked!


 :arrow:Thanks again