Re: Disk management. Cannot format active disk...

Dave Patrick

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30th Jun 2003

Boot a win98 startup disk and remove the active flag.

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"Jochen" wrote:
> Hi,
> screwed up this (Monday)morning I think. I made an (basic)
> disk active before formatting it. Now the format option is
> greyed out and in the Windows explorer there is a red ?
> next to the drive symbol.
> Anybody know what I could do? Use Partition Magic?
> Thanks!
> Jochen

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