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Hardware => Drivers => Topic started by: kreansocerplayer on April 28, 2005, 03:06:31 PM

Title: harddrive help
Post by: kreansocerplayer on April 28, 2005, 03:06:31 PM
Alright, I'll first give you an overview of what i did. I took out an added hard drive from an older computer and wired it to a newer one.  This drive was divided into three partitions/sections (d:/, e:/, and f:/). I wanted to delete those and make a single letter drive.  I was not exactly sure how to do it but i tried anyways (this is all for my enjoyment and it didn't matter if i messed anything up).  I deleted 2 of the drive letter sections (leaving d:/) and created a new partition. It seemed to have worked until i restarted the computer and the "blue screen of death" came up saying windows was not starting for protection reasons or something of the sort and said to reboot. I dont' know what to do because i cannot enter fdisk because i cannot load windows.  Safe mode does nothing. Can anyone help?
Title: Re: harddrive help
Post by: cigarman on April 28, 2005, 03:14:03 PM
Remove the old hdd from the computer.  Windows didn't seem to like it when you added it in, hence BOD.
;)
Title: Re: harddrive help
Post by: kreansocerplayer on April 28, 2005, 03:19:22 PM
Sorry forgot to mention, the hard drive worked fine with the new computer and i just wanted to change the drive letter. I screwed something up obviously, but when i remove it from the computer, everything works fine.  I was just curious if i could save this drive.
Title: Re: harddrive help
Post by: Computer_Commando on April 28, 2005, 04:43:56 PM
Creat boot floppy disk from http://www.bootdisk.com

Then do this:  http://www.computerhope.com/sfdisk1.htm