fdisk

After unmounting the pendrive, and using fdisk to set the partition as W95 FAT32, I used the following command sudo mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdb1 Now everything was successful, but when I try to paste files as user I cannot because the owner of the filesystem is root (I had to be root to fdisk...

i hav a pc wer wen i boot thru DSL it doesnt detect HD.it works well in xp tho.i tried fdisk -l but its not listed.can it be bcos its SATA?wat is the prob and the soln....?

Hello Friends, I have an old laptop of toshiba, with 40 Gb HDD, which crashed, it shows xp F8 advance boot menu, but doesnt proceed further. I tried all things, It shows HDD in BIOS 98,XP And Vista setups detects it when CD/DVD boots, But setup cannot continue [hangs]when it accesses HDD...

May be very old question but i m facing a prob today, i purchased new disk 160 GB. Now i want to install win XP pro only. There is no partion now. My first question is how to partion? bcoz FDISK does not detect my drive. it show only 38 GB. Is FDISK capable of partioned HDD-160 GB. Then i have...

my friends computer has windows nt and xp both loaded, now he wants to format the hdd and install only xp due to virus problem, but i am unable to find fdisk anywhere, how to go about it

I've really loved Fedora Core 4 given free in Digit. But my problem is I am not getting how to uninstall it. I've got only 40GB HDD so i decided that i'll install linux later after upgrading. I've already read in the forum that you have to give fdisk /mbr and than format the drive having linux...

Can i delete NTFS partition with Fdisk? Can anyone explain how to please!!! Or any other method to delete the NTFS Partition???

hi, i have 2 partitions. in one i have win2k and the other has linux. now i want to remove the linux os. so will this procedure be ok? 1. boot from a bootable floppy and go to command prompt and give the command fdisk /mbr. 2. give fdisk command and delete the linux partition. 3...

well my partiotion structure is more or less same as was given 2 years ago by my vendor !!!!! i can change partitions a bit using xp cd , i mean can murge or saperate 2 adjoining partitions only , but i need to have multiple changes , i try to use fdisk , but is not provided in xp ...

I purchased a new 80 GB Barracuda today to connect it into my 845GV M/B P4 machine. I want to keep 98 & XP . While partitioning with Fdisk it shows only 10 GB. Please Help Me ...

i got an 80 gig hdd,single partition with win98.i wana create partitions w/o losin the data currently on the disk,any tool which can help me in dat? know bout fdisk but dunno how 2 use it.any other freeware availble?shud b simple 2 use.

My friend has bought a new PC. How to format his HDD? :?: :!: :roll: