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netteaser
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 Can someone help me with this problem?
I have a laptop that I am trying to re-install the OS, I bought a new Hd for it. When I go to make a partition on this HD it shows me that it was created succesfully. But when I go back into dos to format the new partition it tells me that it cannot be formatted. WHen i go to the C: it tells me that it is a ramdrive and it only has 2mb or gb of free space?? How can I get rid of this ramdrive so I can get my new HD up and running?
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Are your hardware/bios settings correct? A ramdrive is a simulated disk drive in memory . . . you don't generally get rid of it.
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When booting with a Windows disk the the "Ram drive" is created and assigned the first available drive letter. In the case would be C. You will probally be able to access the new hard drive as the "d" drive. If you format the drive with /s the next time you boot the pc without the disk it will be seen as c:.
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Can you create a RAM drive in W2K?
I remember reading how to create one in Win 95 and 98.
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RAM Drive boot disk
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When booting with a Windows disk the the "Ram drive" is created and assigned the first available drive letter. In the case would be C. You will probally be able to access the new hard drive as the "d" drive. If you format the drive with /s the next time you boot the pc without the disk it will be seen as c:.
Windows changed the feature of the bootable disk with the coming of ME (and the loss of SYS Command or /s), I believe, and when you boot to a drive with no partition the Ramdrive takes the first available drive letter (being "C"). Once you establish the partition and reboot you will notice the ramdrive takes the next letter ("D"), and you can then format your HDD. I bet when he typed "DIR" he got the Ramdrive and the extracted utilities from the floppy boot disk, heheh. If you want some cool utilities for boot disks, or need to do more with a boot disk, try Bart's boot disk. It's a handy site to check out, and I have had no problems with virus' there to date, as I have with others.
P.S. - if you need to do Images of systems, let me know. I have a few tips for that as well... and yes, I use a bart's disk to make and distribute the images.
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I use a bart's dick to make and and distribute the images.
oh, my!!!
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Misconstrued!!! Really!!!
Who let you out of your closet?!? go on with ya! back, back I say! lol... so, you caught that before I repaired it, did ya? heheh... Nasty little scamp...
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getting rid of the RAM drive will not solve your problem...
your computer is not detecting the hard drive.
does your hard drive show up in the BIOS screen.
you said that you can successfully create a partition in fdisk.
are you exiting fdisk properly all the way back to the a prompt?
are you rebooting after creating a partition in fdisk?
failure to do any of these steps will result in an undetectable drive.
you didnt (heaven forbid!) use any drive translation software that came with your hard drive?
if so, i would advise that you uninstall the drive translation software and update your BIOS if need be. you will have much less problems that way.
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