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

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 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)

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 int

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

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

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

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

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 le

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 > > curren

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 > > curren

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 instal

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.