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by dhillon-g

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I recently bought a new harddisk 20gb samsung
and used fdisk to partition it.... C drive 10gb,Ddrive 5gb and E drive drive 5gb restarted my computer did a setup.exe for win98sec EDITION but when it checked my harddrive for errors before setup I saw my E drive was missing so i stop setup did fdisk again to see what was showing in status but fdisk came with message "cannot access disk drive" I loaded win98 anyway on C drive,D drive is available but E drive I cannot access under fdisk,parttion magic,or powerquest easy recovery5.0. Easy recovery does show my missing 5gb as unknown file format.please how can i access my missing 5gb spce on E drive which windows does not show on my computer panel at all and i cannot run fdisk again because itrefuses to to run.

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by jamey26tn

If you dont have a lot of information On the drive it may be your best bet to start from scratch. I would in this situation I would recommend a Debug, fdisk, Format and a reinstall Of you OS. The Debug will set the HDD back to the Way it came form the factor(Basically Wipes the first 1000 sectors completely)But be Very Careful w/ the Debug script!!!
F 200 L1000 0
A cs:100
XXXX:0100 MOV AX,301
XXXX:0103 MOV BX,200
XXXX:0106 MOV CX,1
XXXX:0109 MOV DX,80 ( NOTE,DO NOT TYPE ONLY FYI 80=HDD NOTE#0,,81=HDD #1)
XXXX:010C INT 13
XXXX:010E INT 20
XXXX:0100
-G
Should say program terminated Normally.
Then Run Fdisk

by dle

How did you fdisk your partitions? The correct way should have been 10 GB primary and 10 GB extended. The extended partition should include 2 logical drives each with 5 GB.

Boot with a Win98 boot disk and Fdisk again. Or, if you don't want to reinstall the OS, use a utility such as Powerquest Partition Magic to delete the unknown partition and extend the current partition.

by thmiuatga

Hey;
I'll keep this as simple as possible: start up Partition magic and access your drive. The space that is not shown as an active partition...Delete it. then create a new partition in that space. Activate the changes and let the process run. whenthe system reboots the newly created partition should be drive E.

Good Luck!

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