after successfuly migrating to windows 2000 from 98se so that I could get exsperience with win 2000 I shortly had a severe crash with left the system unbootable all repair options failed, and reintalling din’t work .So I formatted the harddrive using fat 16 (all previous attemts to reinstall either windows 2000 or nt4 server failed with messages that the drive was either unformatted or damaged.
8063mb on disk 0 at id1 on bus 0 C: 2047mb formated or damaged with 1mb unpartitioned space
D: 13358mb 1035mb unpartitioned space
and when choosing to format it would fail and leave Me with f3 to abort installation)After fdisk and format athough the drive is a seagate 17.5 gb only one partition of 2.75 was created and the rest was inaccessable.After using disk manager/disk wizard I had eight 1.75 approx patitions and was able to install 98se(fat16) but nt4 still failed,plus I had 2 drives listed athough only one in reality disk1 17.5 gig disk 2 100mb. I then managed too install win 2000 onanouther partion but half the partions vanished leaving me with 5 1.78gb partions (out of 17gb)also a full install of win 2000 with no other software has used up 1.18 gb with 606mb free ? I have tried to do a low level format but have so far failed athough i have no experiance of this procedure and any help would be apprieciated I need a nt4/ win2000 and win 98to practice my MCP skills thanks