twist Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 i formatted the hd on my laptop in dos, now when i boot with my boot disc i can't access my hd. i can access my a drive and cd drive, but not my c: its there in the bios set-up fine but i can't use it... help ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Viper- Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 twist, did you try to fire up fdisk and see what it shows in there? just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 Originally posted by Lost0001 twist, did you try to fire up fdisk and see what it shows in there? just a thought. Also not to state the obvious but if it is formatted in NTFS you can't access it and if its FAT32 make sure you have a new enough boot disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist Posted June 15, 2002 Author Share Posted June 15, 2002 yah i tried that, wouldn't work. grabbed a half decent XP boot disk from bootdisk.com and got it to start installing though. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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