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Stephen
Hi
I've done a stupid thing.
I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.
Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.
So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.
There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
a partition and in doing so will remove the data.
Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.
Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.
I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.
I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
maintain whatever it needed to work.
Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.
I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.
Thanks a lot - Stephen
I've done a stupid thing.
I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.
Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.
So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.
There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
a partition and in doing so will remove the data.
Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.
Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.
I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.
I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
maintain whatever it needed to work.
Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.
I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.
Thanks a lot - Stephen