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by dhillon-g

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I installed winME on my comp recently wanted to use the fdisk utility to change my partition size but it would not allow me,the message I get is disk 1 is not
acessesable, reason I found was it has file named Suhdlog.dat which blocks your fdisk,format, utility from working.WinME help file describes the way to unistall this, some smartdrv commands etc but it did not work for me all I want to do is run fdisk and change my partition size and instal new OS. Partition magic does not work either till this file is there and further you cant even run format command I even tried win98 ESD Disk..... help....

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by toltec58

Weird.. Ya can't boot from a boot disk and blow it away to start over? That's what I would do. Then run F-Disk to partition befor you install OS's.
Course you could just install a new Hard drive and put other OS there...

G Luck!
T58

by dhillon-g

weird !yes...and new hard drive this a brand new HDD and with ME fully installed and working but cant access HDD in dos.

by vertex

You should try booting from a Windows 98 boot disk and run the FDISK command from there. If all else fails, reformat the harddisk and reinstall your OS.

by dhillon-g

windows ME instals a file after successful installation of setup which blocks you from reformatting and fdisk commands you cant access your hard disk until this file "suhlog.dat is unistalled.

by txtopgun

This does not even make sense. I HAVE run fdisk on a drive with WinME installed. I used it to wipe the drive clean and go back to Win98. By booting from a Win98 boot disk, you can use DOS commands like fdisk. Fdisk works at the drive level, not file level, and therefore doesn't care what files are on the drive (or not) nor what they contain in them. All you need is a Win98 or even Win95 boot disk. The only real catch here is that anytime you use fdisk you then are forced to reformat and therefore loose any information you currently have on the drive.

by dhillon-g

please read the help file on winME
ESD disk.you must have installed ME upgrade over win98 which can be removed from add & remove programs and you are back to normal this not upgrade its full instal.
thanks

by ~atheria

I know it's a real pain to have a hard disk not recognizing the motherboard and if the clear CMOS jumper doesn't work, then try going to Steve Gibson's site and getting "SpinRite".

Steve Gibson wrote for "InfoWorld" along with Dvorak for 10 years and writes wonderful software... one of which is "SpinRite". It's a hard drive utility that is over 10 years old and the BRAND new version is getting massive interest from big computer mags/publications.

Hopefully you can recover from this as soon as possible.

(((HUGZ)))
~Felina

by dhillon-g

The hard disk is recognised by the motherboard I have installed ME full version after sucessfull installation ME puts a file " suhlog.dat" which will not allow allow you to use fdisk,format utility as it is very easy with win98 version.there are series of steps to follow to unistall ME upgrade can be unstilled in add & remove progammes. Thanks !!

by computab

Use a tried and tested Win98 or SE boot disk to start in DOS, then run fdisk. note: you can't run fdisk from Win98 when you used a WINme boot disk or vice versa.

by steven vaske

If all else fails get a plain old DOS boot disk and boot from that and try to make the changes that way

by txtopgun

Actually, it doesn't matter to me that you rejected my answer because I know for a fact it works...I did it personally. Besides, if that file were in fact what was causing the problem, all you would have to do is change the attributes on it to -s-h-r and delete it. Then everything would continue normally anyway. I totally fail to see the problem here.

by vertex

I have to agree with vcc@gvtc.com. I have installed ME to try it out but decide to get rid of it and revert back to my Win98SE. Using Win98SE, I boot up from the floppy drive and FDISK and reformat my harddrive. I'm using that same harddrive with Win98SE right now. The file mentioned Suhdlog.dat (correct me if I am wrong) can also be found in Win95.
Using a boot disk from floppy drive will not load any files on the harddisk, don't see how the Suhdlog.dat file can be called upon. However if youtry to run FDISK from WinME it will not worked because WinME do not support DOS. If you want to change the partition size without affecting you WinMe, then you should other software such as Partition Magic and etc, that might help.

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