...F-Disk???
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Well, as you may or may not already know, fdisk will wipe anything off your drive which is there and allow you to change the partitioning of the hard disk drive(s). Basically, you need to boot from a startup floppy, then type fdisk at the command prompt. There will be a menu to choose from, but without knowing why you would want to use fdisk, I can't make recommendations on which options you would need....
Perhaps with more info, I can be of more assistance.
Perhaps with more info, I can be of more assistance.
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Originally Posted by wheelMA1
Can you fill me in? What exactly is F-disking?
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Originally Posted by wheelMA1
Ahh. When I want to reformat and reload, I can use the windows console function of XP, via booting from disc, and it does the rest for me. Guess that's just a term I haven't heard before.
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If you are trying to earase your hard drive, what would be easier is to just use a boot disk goto the dos prompt and "format c: /s" then reload your operating system, you'd have to format when you F-disk. The only time you'd really need to use F-disk is if you are changing the preportions of your partitions.
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Yup, that's one situation in which you'd definitely use fdisk. I deliberately didn't get too specific about that utility without knowing the reason he wants to use it. The last time I used it was on my tower before I installed Linux and win to "duel" boot. Now I wish I hadn't bothered with windows. lol.
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...Yea I may or may not need to do it. Basically Im trying to figure what it entails. Ive lost some of my system tools (defrag, scan tools) and msconfig and Ive tried to reformat (several times). the system is a upgrade from win98 to win2000 so none of my original gateway operating disks will work, it currently has ntfs....I was thinking of starting over from scratch (someone mention f-disking once) Im about 2-steps from chucking the whole thing into the garbage.
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like stated - this is not for the light hearted :-)
SOME IDE type drives do not LIKE F-disk....
you may need their own "software" for repartitioning...
like go into Compaq's web site for their hard drive utility if a compaq drive, etc...
Have heard of F-Disk destroying hard drives in the past...
(Not just the data - the hard drive was non-functional after F-disk)
SOME IDE type drives do not LIKE F-disk....
you may need their own "software" for repartitioning...
like go into Compaq's web site for their hard drive utility if a compaq drive, etc...
Have heard of F-Disk destroying hard drives in the past...
(Not just the data - the hard drive was non-functional after F-disk)