You need to boot from a bootable floppy or Win98 or above cd rom and type in fdisk. At fdisk you need to delete the non dos partitions and then the dos ones if you have them and then make a dos partition. Then you can format the drive..rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "jaz43" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Works" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:41 AM Subject: PCWorks: Hidden Partition
> Some time ago before I became a member of the group a friend posted a problem > I had. > I had bought a computer system from a company that had "customised" it > preventing me from doing what I wanted to do with it such has putting on MS > operating system. > I had formatted my hard drive and tried to install the operating system but on > finishing nothing had been installed and I had to use the supplied customised > Win ME. > The company has gone out of business and I have found out that the customised > info is on a hidden partition on the hard drive. > I am told I need to delete this info to get rid of the customisation. > I cannot find this partition so could anyone please advise on what I need to > do. > > Thanks, > Keith ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
