Formatted C: and can't boot from A:

[MamaLoca]

My daughter formated her harddrive from the c: prompt and now I can not get fdisk to run from a bootable disk. fdisk says there is no fixed drive. I got the cd-rom to spin up but when I enter Install it wants me to "create an MS-DOS boot partition with HPFS or NTFS"

I'm at a loss, now what?

[degsy]

Welcome


Try this

Download this program to your desktop
http://www.mbhs.edu/~jaosborn/boot98sc.exe

RUN the program and it will prompt for a floppy disk.
This will create a startup disk.
Boot from the disk and at the A:\ prompt type

FDISK
then press enter

When in FDISK choose option 4 to display the Partition info.
Is there a partition setup?


Also checkout these tutorials
How to Delete a Partition (fdisk) How to Create a Partition (fdisk) How to Format a Partition How to install Windows

[MamaLoca]

I tried that and FDISK says there is no fixed drive, I'm guessing the C drive is the fixed drive.

Someone suggested Partition magic, but I don't know much about the program.

[degsy]

Does the BIOS detect the HardDrive?