[Ham-Computers] HALP

[Lloyd KK7IZ]

Thanx figured that out about 5 min ago.
Thanx
Lloyd  KK7IZ
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] HALP


> 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
>
>
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