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Yappics

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May 6, 2002, 2:16:47 AM5/6/02
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When attempting to reformatt my harddrives, my volume label consist of funny
characters that I have no idea on how to reproduce exactly to tell the
system which volume to reformatt. Has my harddrive crashed? Any help would
be appreciated. MS Website has no answers to this problem.


kony

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May 6, 2002, 3:03:18 AM5/6/02
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That could be a physical problem, but more likely only logical...
Not enough info to determine a problem that won't be solved by simply
using FDISK to delete the affected partition and then recreate it,
before formatting (try that).


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philo

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May 6, 2002, 7:38:13 AM5/6/02
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it could very well have been caused by a virus
and since you have to enter the volume number (which is corrupted)
fdisk will not allow you to delete the partition

what you can do is go to www.bootdisk.com

and in their utility downloads get aefdisk.exe


copy it to your boot floppy and instead of runninf fdisk


run aefdisk/delall

the delall switch should completely wipe the drive
then you can run fdisk from dos and recreate your partition(s)
reboot
and format

Beck

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May 6, 2002, 8:42:41 AM5/6/02
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"kony" <ko...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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If he cant recreate the symbols then he cannot delete the partition as the
volume label has to be entered to delete.

Beck


kony

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May 6, 2002, 9:24:14 AM5/6/02
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 13:42:41 +0100, "Beck" <tang...@hotmail.com>
wrote:


>If he cant recreate the symbols then he cannot delete the partition as the
>volume label has to be entered to delete.
>
>Beck

Hmm, maybe just as easy to put into a working system and
relabel/format in windows.

Oh, there may be a better way...

Format /autotest

The /autotest switch will format without any further user input.

CBFalconer

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May 6, 2002, 11:37:16 AM5/6/02
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kony wrote:
> "Yappics" <jya...@commonfolknews.com> wrote:
>
> >When attempting to reformatt my harddrives, my volume label
> >consist of funny characters that I have no idea on how to
> >reproduce exactly to tell the system which volume to reformatt.
> >Has my harddrive crashed? Any help would be appreciated. MS
> >Website has no answers to this problem.
>
> That could be a physical problem, but more likely only logical..
> Not enough info to determine a problem that won't be solved by
> simply using FDISK to delete the affected partition and then
> recreate it, before formatting (try that).

That is likely to run into the same problem, with bigger data
risks. Try cutting and pasting from the display of the "funny
character label".

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Beck

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May 6, 2002, 1:22:27 PM5/6/02
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"CBFalconer" <cbfal...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> kony wrote:
> > "Yappics" <jya...@commonfolknews.com> wrote:
> >
> > >When attempting to reformatt my harddrives, my volume label
> > >consist of funny characters that I have no idea on how to
> > >reproduce exactly to tell the system which volume to reformatt.
> > >Has my harddrive crashed? Any help would be appreciated. MS
> > >Website has no answers to this problem.
> >
> > That could be a physical problem, but more likely only logical..
> > Not enough info to determine a problem that won't be solved by
> > simply using FDISK to delete the affected partition and then
> > recreate it, before formatting (try that).
>
> That is likely to run into the same problem, with bigger data
> risks. Try cutting and pasting from the display of the "funny
> character label".

How do you paste into dos then?

Beck


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