Re: No 'Diskwizard'?


"Nick" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:26:40 GMT, "meerkat" <xxxx@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867

read these.


Please pardon me, I hit the wrong button when replying.

Upon typing fdisk at the A: prompt, an error message appears "No fixed
disks
present".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309459 at the microsoft website states the
following:

Error Message When You Run ScanDisk or Fdisk: No Fixed Disks Present

Cause
This behavior can occur because of any of the following hardware issues:
The hard disk is defective or too hot.
The jumper settings on the hard disk are incorrectly configured.
The hard disk data cable is defective or too long.
The hard disk controller is defective or incorrectly configured in the
computer BIOS.
______

The computer case is open it seems unlikely the drive is too hot.
The jumper setting is set to Master.
The cable is a brand new 18" cable with one system board connector and one
connect to the drive.
Maybe the last cause for the error message is that in the STANDARD CMOS
SETUP underTYPE is set to none instead of Auto-Detect:

HARD DISKS TYPE

Primary Master : None
Primary Slave : None
Secondary Master : None
Secondary Slave : None

Do you think that will help? Thank you.

If your drive is fitted correctly, then in BIOS you
set it to AUTO, that should `find` the drive.(SAVE settings).

Then restart with your floppy disk, and type fdisk.
I will ask you a question, answer Yes.
Then read the screen.

You want to pertition the drive into 2 halves (ie 50%).


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