From: scosgt_at_att.net
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 15:35:22 EDT
No, I think he was having a problem even booting from a
boot disk, and I have a utility that will kill a
partition with a bad table, so you can FDISK and format
the drive.
> I haven't been following this thread.
>
> Is there interest in something that will KILL a partition table outright? I
> could give you about 7 lines of assembly code that you can enter into
> DOS's debug program which will render any disk unbootable by smashing
> the partition table flat.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 03:15 PM 10/1/00 -0400, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> >I have a utility that goes on a floppy and will remove ANY partition I
> >have ever encountered. If you get really stuck I'll try to find a way to
> >upload it to you (but you need to create a bootable W95 floppy to use
> >it).
> >
> >James H. E. Maugham wrote:
> > >
> > > I originally sent this message to Bill, who has tried to help (thanks
> > Bill), but
> > > I'm still sort of stuck and thought I would throw it out for possible
> > help from
> > > you wonderful folks on the list.
> > >
> > > I've got PM 3 through 5 available, so if anyone comes up with a use for
> > that
> > > here, please let me know. Jane??
> > >
> > > Worst case scenario is to borrow an outboard PCMCIA drive holder from
> > Bill and
> > > attempt to reformat from one of my W2K 600's.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > James the Puzzled!
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James H. E. Maugham [mailto:CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:45 PM
> > > To: penzance_at_gate.net
> > > Subject: A Senior Moment
> > >
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > >
> > > I'm at the point where I'm beginning to tear my hair out! System -
> > TP755CD Pent
> > > with 2.1GB drive formatted in NTFS with W2K which WON'T start! Gives me
> > a "The
> > > display driver failed to initialize" warning and shuts down on a BSOD
> > telling me
> > > to call my Sysadmin!
> > >
> > > W98 bootdisk, of course, won't recognize the NTFS drive and I can't
> > seem to get
> > > anything to run from the floppy with the exception of PartMagic
> > bootdisk, but
> > > that won't convert the drive back to FAT32, nor does it recognize the
> > drive from
> > > a DOS prompt. I've got 7 other machine here running W2K, but none of
> > the boot
> > > disks I've built from the CD ERU will let me access the HD on the 755CD.
> > >
> > > At this point I'd be happy if I could _just_ format the HD back to FAT16 or
> > > FAT32 as I intend to re-load W95 on it. But there are a couple of files
> > on it
> > > I'd like to have if possible, but they're not critical.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Warm regards,
> > >
> > > James
>
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