Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:03:52PM -0600, ktb wrote kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: I had stuff on the disk but I meant to wipe it clean. What my problem seems to be coming down to is my computer will no longer auto detect my HD's. I had one HD (primary) with Windows 98 and (secondary) with Slink. Now neither of my HD's are detected. I went into the

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:06:54AM -0600, ktb wrote ktb wrote: I had stuff on the disk but I meant to wipe it clean. What my problem seems to be coming down to is my computer will no longer auto detect my HD's. I had one HD (primary) with Windows 98 and (secondary) with

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread Eric Hagglund
John is 100% correct. The one thing I would offer, based on my having single-handedly screwed up probably 100 or more installs, is that you should walk away from it for a day or so if you can afford to. Try hard to force yourself to stay away from the box for at least 24 hours. Every time I had

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread Dean Struss
Hi Kent Since its a new computer, why not go to your vendor? Should have been some kind of warranty. Dean This is a brand new computer. Everything was working fine until I cfdisked the primary drive. Then the bios can't detect either of my drives. The only one detected is my

Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under dos but it wouldn't let me delete the current partition so I used the Slink installation disk and cfdisk to partition my HD. I

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under dos but it wouldn't let me delete the current partition so I used the Slink

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under dos but it wouldn't let me delete the current partition so

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under dos but it wouldn't let me delete the current partition so

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under dos but it wouldn't let me delete the

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
ktb == ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ktb I didn't drop any data but I can't access anything but ktb bios/setup at this time. My system basically is telling me ktb that no HD exists. How can I restore the partition table? This might work: * Create a bootable floppy on a Windows

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink