Primary Dos Partition issue.

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bernardmax

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Hi folks,
When I was away from home my nephew was playing a video game in my PC. While playing video game the power cuts off immediately. When he tried to restart, system could not load windows XP. Message was "diskett error".
When I booted with WinXP CD, it started to copy files into hard drive as it happens when we install winXP. There were 2 partions at the final step. One was D with nfts file format and other was c with "unknow" file format. I deleted C: drive and created new C drive with "new raw" file format. The system directed me to setup format, i could not format it. There was an error in drive C.
When I did SCANDISK, this message displayed "this error prevents Scandisk to fix problem" .
I did FDISK but It takes too long (more than 5 hrs) while creating Primary Dos partion. Starts to "veryfying integrity" 0-100% and start and complete again and again, over and over. Plz tell me what to do now.

Pliz help to do so...
 
verify you dont have any floppies in the drive. Rerun setup. When you do it, make sure not to choose quick format (you want to check for errors)

personally though, i think your hard drive may have just failed
 
jdbennet said:
verify you dont have any floppies in the drive. Rerun setup. When you do it, make sure not to choose quick format (you want to check for errors)

personally though, i think your hard drive may have just failed
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I'm using win98 bootable cd in the drive. Do I have to use floppy only? or what else?
 
jdbennet said:
dont use 98. Just use the XP cd. Its all you need.
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I'm bit confuse...I'm trying to create " Primary Dos partition" from prompt A:
I'm facing a problem while creating "primary Dos Partition" as I've mentioned above. I think XP cd is for installing winxp isn't it ?
 
You only need the XP cd to install.

Windows XPs cd can make, delete and format partitions much better than a DOS disk can.

You do partitioning etc.... during the blue screen part of the XP install.
 
jdbennet said:
You only need the XP cd to install.

Windows XPs cd can make, delete and format partitions much better than a DOS disk can.

You do partitioning etc.... during the blue screen part of the XP install.
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I tried with Win XP Cd but it failed to format C: drive. There are some error in the hard drive.
 
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