Strange behavior of Harddirve
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
I used to be installing windows 98 many time before, but now I prefer to use winxp or 2000. As far as I know, FDSIK utilities in win98 have an option call "Delete non DOS partition" in the delete section. This option allow you to delete the partition with NFTS file system. Because I left win98 for a long time, so I'm not sure too but try to use this option. If you don't prefer this option, you could attach your hard disk drive to another system with win2k/xp then use disk management to delete its partition. Hope it is working!! ;)
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
Just about every hard drive manufacturer has a utility, usually on their website, to "wipe" or write zero's to the hard drive. I perfer to use the maufacturer's one over win98 fdisk, because it normaly comes with utilities to check the drive for errors. i.e. Segate's is called DiskWizard.. ect. ect..
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
hi, You can try Partition Magic. And one more this i need to remind you that ' it is not possible to remove a ntfs partiton while heeping a FAT 16. If you would have intall your both 98 and xp in Fat32 then some times we can figurout and keep a chance for escape from your problem. ************************** S r e e j i t h N a i r **************************
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
Did you ever have a different operating system on the disk in question? I remember getting into booting trouble once because the boot.ini file on my primary partition made reference to an operating system on a secondary disk that I had reformatted without first uninstalling the operating system from which would have updated the boot.ini file. If that fits your problem and if your primary partition is formatted NTFS you are in trouble because your Win98 system will not recognize it. If on the other hand your primary partition is FAT formatted boot using Win98 and edit out references to the secondary disk that do not actually exist anymore in the boot.ini file and try to boot again with WimXP.
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Hi all, well this issues is really bugging my mind for the last week... and i didnt understand anything about it yet.... well the story goes that a few weeks back my Windows XP suddenly stopped booting, displaying me the good old BLUE SCREEN ..... when i removed one of my harddrive it started working perfectly. Now come the interesting part, as i booted my system on win98 with the harddrive attached it booted smoothly:eek::confused:. Now what i want is to do is, delete the NTFS partitions in the extended DOS partition but win98 doesnt allow me to do that using FDISK:confused:...... So, if anyone could help with this issue or tell me any software that could delete the partition table completely please mail me ASAP at je_shoaib@hotmail.com..... or reply to the msg. waiting..... shoaib
Thankx to all for all the help you provided. But i think after some research i suggest that the only solution to this problem is to delete the partition table completely from your harddrive.You can do it using the DEBUG utility provided with win98. information regarding this can be found at the following link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;106419[^] as far as the option in FDISK to delete non-dos patition is conserned.... well it normally fails... thankx again......