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It probably won't see the drive because it is formatted NTFS. That is
why we all told you to use FDisk and delete the partition. Then you
can create a partition which will be visible and format it using
Fat32.
Regards,
Randall
rkurzon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thursday, October 11, 2001, 10:35:29, you wrote:
> Thanks for all your responses. I just created a Startup disk on this old
> Win95 laptop that I have and when I run it, it doesn't see the C: drive
> either. hmmmm. I think that this could be explained by the aftermarket IDE
> card that I have. I'll remove that tonight and try again.
> Can Norton Ghost actually restore your boot partition?
> Jim Bronke
> Phoenix, AZ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivo Karindi" <ivo@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Jim Bronke'" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:02 AM
> Subject: RE: wipe C on Win2000?
> : Yes, normally you can not erase the OS partition from the OS. A solution
> : might be to do it from DOS. If you could find a floppy that lets your
> : computer to boot up from the floppy, and includes some essential functions
> : like HD formatting, that could solve the problem. Sometimes computer
> : manufacturers provide such disks. I have one for a Gateway Pentium II
> : computer, not sure if it will work for you (I could zip the floppy
> contents
> : and e-mail), but worth a try if you can not find anything else. I have
> used
> : the floppy on several occasions on 2 different computers (the Gateway and
> a
> : Micron) for completely wiping out the HD.
> :
> : For the future, I recomend Drive Image, Ghost, or equivalent. Just
> avoiding
> : one such complete computer/software rebuilding process will in my opinion
> : pay for the price of the program.
> :
> : Ivo
> :
> :
: >> -----Original Message-----
: >> From: Jim Bronke [mailto:jvbronke@xxxxxxxx]
: >> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:58 AM
: >> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
: >> Subject: wipe C on Win2000?
: >>
: >>
: >> I got Nimda a couple of weeks ago and I am running on my
: >> backup computer
: >> while trying to get this mess on Win2000 straightened out.
: >> Although Norton
: >> cleaned the virus out of my hard drive in every file except
: >> the boot record
: >> of my hard drive. Win 2000 won't let me erase the hard drive!
: >> Even when
: >> using their poorly made boot disks that you can create using
: >> the Win 2000
: >> installation CD. These boot disks bring up my computer in a
: >> mode where it
: >> won't see the hard drives. The instructions with Norton AV is
: >> Win2000 has an
: >> advanced operating system and boot disks are not needed. Huh?
: >> Anyone got any ideas on how to delete the hard drive. I even
: >> tried to make
: >> some Win98 disks on my Win 98 system. It hangs.
: >>
: >> Jim Bronke
: >> Phoenix, AZ
: >>
: >>
: >>
: >>
: >>
> :
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