My system has already been installed with Windows ME and all necessary accessories. Wanted to add on an external hard drive. During Fdisk, I select option b. Cannot remember what and was told to reboot. But system will not boot up.
2006-12-07 09:54:55 · 5 answers · asked by s_twc 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
You may have set the other (new) drive as the active drive. If so, you need to boot from floppy w/fdisk on it and mark the original as active. Doing this will also allow you to examine the partitions of both drives. Only one drive can be marked "active" at a time.
You can use a Win98 disk with Fdisk just to check and set active if that's what happened. Otherwise, let's hope you didn't wipe out the main disk.
2006-12-07 10:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, it sounds as though you,ve wiped the whole system .
what I suggest you do, is start the pc with a Boot disck first, then go back into the FDISK, and select option 1, (I think) for deleting Primary Partition, delete that, then re-install the primary partition it will have an option to do this, once you have done this reboot your PC with boot Floppy then just Reformat the PC, then you will have to re-install windows from the CD (Which you must have).
I hope this helps
2006-12-07 10:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like you have ran fdisk on your main drive, the one with windows me on, instead of on the external hard drive.
if this is true, then to the best of my knowledge there's no way of reliably retrieving the old partition(s) on that drive and the other information that was on the disk - it may mean reinstalling windows me onto your main drive to get your system working again. of course to do this you'll need a windows installation cd.
it may not have even been necessary to run fdisk at all, windows may have just asked if you wanted to format the external drive on the first occasion you tried to access it through windows.
really, when using format/fdisk type commands you need to be incredibly careful because it is very easy to wipe a drive which then can't be recovered - this is likely what you have done.
2006-12-07 09:56:34 · answer #3 · answered by piquet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You most likely formatted the hard drive which erased all the data on it. You'll need a new copy of Windows to install for it to run again, or get a new operating system such as linux. If you have the install disk for your computer that will work too, just put that in when Windows starts and go through the steps to install.
2006-12-07 09:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by Justin H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
indexed right here are some issues you will possibly be able to desire to aim: one million. maximum ext HDs use USB cables. If yours does, try changing USB ports aka plug it into yet another USB plug on your laptop. 2. try leaving it by myself for an afternoon or 2, it might desire to be overheating and having problems. 3. Your laptop might have problems analyzing the HD, try unplugging the HD, restarting your laptop, and plugging it back in. 4. Your HD might in simple terms be broken, you will could get it replaced. in case you have some USB storage gadgets or in case your laptop has enough room, try backing up the not easychronic itself, after which try reformatting it, or if the keep you got it at facilitates you to, commerce it back in for a clean one. 5. Worst case difficulty is theres a scourge on your laptop or HD. not a extreme probability of that nevertheless. i'm hoping I helped in some way.
2016-12-13 04:48:01 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋