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Apr 21, 2007, 02:57 PM
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| | | unable to partition or format hard drive i have a Toshiba MK6014MAP 6gig hard drive that i am unable to partition, reformate, fdisk i am unable to do anything with it
i have tried fdisk through dos and a windows98 bootdisc, i have tried partition magic, also ultimate boot cd, just about anything you can think of to no avail.
the newest msg i get is "failure fixed disk 1"
i am using a Gateway 2000 Solo Laptop which does not allow for the floppy and cd-rom to run at the same time (there is only one slot, so it is one or the other)
i am able to get the laptop to boot using the windows XP 6 discs but this setup cancells once it needs to read the cd-rom, otherwise no other boot disk will work
also the bios is "Phoenix Bios Note Bios 4.0 setup 1985-96 - Version 7.44". as my knowledge in bios is very limited i am unsure if this is all correct as it seems to me that there is a couple of different things conflicting ontop of the hard drive problem
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Apr 21, 2007, 03:01 PM
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Pay to call Curlyben for advice ($1/min) | OK what are you try to achieve here.
I'm bemused that you are try to partition a 6Gb drive, seems a bit of a waste of time.
What OS are you looking to install, as part of the XP install is partition and format ?
Also you start by mentioning a Toshiba machine than go on to talk about a Gateway one. Which is it ?? |
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Apr 21, 2007, 03:09 PM
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| sorry if lil confusing but daylight now here and i still no closer
it is a Gateway laptop with a toshiba hard drive and all i am trying to do is re-install any operating system so that my young daughter may use it
i was not trying to partition a 6 gig hard drive.....that would make no sense, all i want to do is format the hard drive which it will not do until it has a dos partition which i cannot get any fdisk program to do |
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Apr 21, 2007, 03:51 PM
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| does it see the harddrive? maybe set to slave and not master. |
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Apr 21, 2007, 04:15 PM
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| when i boot up with a win98 boot disk in the floppy i get 2 msg's - 1st, failure fixed disk 1, press F1 to resume , F2 to setup....i press resume (F1) and it all seems to go fine until windows is due to start, then i get 2nd msg saying that there is no partition on the hard drive and to use fdisk at the a: prompt......upon doing that i get a final msg saying error reading disk
if i use the 6 windows xp floppies i am able to boot all the way up untill it needs to read the cd-rom.....which it is unable to find due to the problem that this laptop does not allow for both floppy and cd-rom to plugged in at the same time
to add to my woes, the cd-rom only works part of the time.....well actually only once and i cannot remember wat settings i changed to get it to work........yes i tell it to boot from the cd-rom but it just won't do it........someone said it mite be a memory problem? |
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Apr 21, 2007, 05:29 PM
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Pay to call ScottGem for advice ($.75/min) | Sounds to me like the drive is dead. |
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Apr 21, 2007, 05:36 PM
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| finally, i can lay it to rest..........thank you......i really wanted to make sure as a new one will cost a lil more than i have, but i have tried everything and read just about everything so i am feeling better about taking the hard drive on a long drive to the country hehehe
but i will connect it to my pc first just to make sure
thank you for your help and time |
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Apr 21, 2007, 05:48 PM
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| lol -- you could have connected to your desktop for reformat --install operating system also -- Savage |
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May 17, 2007, 08:10 AM
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| look for the "load default values" key from the bios setup and proceed to do that. then try to reboot. if that fails then i think the harddrive is truly damaged and cannot be used.
also try installing linux on it and if u get the same situation then you have to conclude that the disk cannot be used. |
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