[Ham-Computers] HALP

[jeff]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 19:31, Lloyd KK7IZ wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up a new computer for my wife. I loaded 98E2 
> and when it asked me about hard drive I accidently did not accept large 
> format. There fore I wound up with 2 gig of an 80 gig HD. How do I undo my 
> mistake and format it for 80 gig?

are you talking about the FDISK and FORMAT process?

If you are (and this is largely non-recoverable without tools), you can
go back and re-FDISK, then format, making sure to tell it that it's a
large HD.  Just do it over again, first removing the partition you
created, then creating a proper one.

Again, this assumes you already did FDISK once.  This will just write
over it.  Anything on the HD gets wiped during this process.


If I am not understanding correctly, please feel free to ask again (use
Swahili - it seems to work for me :)


Good luck,
jeff