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Problem creating primary DOS partition

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · Mar 19, 2004

When I try to do this, it sits at the following screen:

"Create Primary DOS Partition:

Current fixed disk drive: 1

Press Esc to return to fdisk options"

The screen sits like this. It is making noise like it is working, but nothing happens. When I hit esc or 1 or enter, nothing happens. It's been sitting at that point for about a half hour. Safe to say nothing is going on.

I just wiped out the hard drive with fdisk. Now, nothing's doing!

Note: If you were one of the many helping me yesterday, this is a new issue!

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mobo

· #2 · Mar 19, 2004

What type of partition was previously on the drive ?

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Alex Ethridge

· #3 · Mar 19, 2004

My guess is that you didn't completely wipe out the old partition or the partition table is corrupt.

Send me a mail with ZAPART as the subject and you will get a tiny utility back from my autoresponder that will wipe all partitions from a drive in one fell swoop. Then you can try again. Put nothing esle into the subject line and no spaces.

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 19, 2004

I dont know. I deleted all partitions. It shows as all partitions are deleted.

In the BIOS, it shows the HD and the correct size of the HD (4GB, it's an oldie)

Will I be able to download that ZAPART thing to a floppy?

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 19, 2004

Any time that I use any of the other options in fdisk, it tells me that there are no partitions or anything. However, it lets me hit esc to go back.

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #6 · Mar 19, 2004

Alex, I sent you the E-mail. Still have yet to get the utilty.

I have all partitions wiped out, though. It isn't doing anything when I try to make the new one.

Anyone ever encounter this or know what to do?

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mobo

· #7 · Mar 19, 2004

Do a fdisk and select to delete "NON- Dos " partitions then see what happens..If there was something like linux or other fdisk doesn't even see it..

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #8 · Mar 19, 2004

I tried all of them. The NON-Dos attempt showed me that there were none of these.

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mobo

· #9 · Mar 19, 2004

Time for the manufacturers software I think. Do you know off hand the make of drive it is ?

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #10 · Mar 20, 2004

Western Digital Caviar 34,000. It is a 4 gig HD.

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 20, 2004

Zapart didn't work either. It said that I needed to give them my Command Interpreter.

Anyone know what to do with this old PC?

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mobo

· #12 · Mar 20, 2004

Unzip this to a floppy and use it to boot up the pc and write zeroes to the drive..http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgdiag11.zip

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SpeedRacer5

Discussion Starter · #13 · Mar 22, 2004

When I run that, it tells me that the hard drive is too old for that program.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

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