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  • HDD proplem...Desperate

    Howdy all.

    Here is the problem I ran into tonight. A friend of mine has an old P-Pro 180 with a WD 8 gig hdd. He was working/doing his thing and he restarted the computer. After post it just sits there and does nothing.

    I tried a 98 bootdisk, and it says the HDD isn't formatted for windows, not fat/fat 32. In FDISK it sees the partition but reads it as non-dos.

    Is there any way to get it back to fat 32 without repartitioning it? And is there any way to prevent this nonsense from happening in the future.

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    "Is there any way to get it back to fat 32 without repartitioning it?"

    Partitioning has nothing to do with the file system(s) installed; i.e. the partition is probably fine but the FS has been corrupted. Try a disk repair utility that supports the installed FS (sure it was FAT32?).
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      He is running 98 and not NT/W2k. If it's NT/Win2k it may report non dos. If it is 98 or 95 try getting hold of Nortons Utilities and boot off the cd.
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