volume label all screwy

ganggreen · #1 December 2nd, 2004, 04:21 PM

Hi:

Trying to format a fat32 drive. while running fdisk and wanting to delete primary dos partition on 20 GB drive, the volume label is filled with some character set i am not familiar with and since i can't type it in it says volume label does not match. Also tried running 98 setup on that partition and it says it cannot format the drive because of a problem w/ the primary dos partition.

the volume label is this:
/>-SO+¦AG♥+ I have no idea where this came from.

Any ideas? ( I tried entering the above in fdisk but can't even enter the "/")

Any help is greatly appreiciated

Thanx

**degsy** · #2 December 2nd, 2004, 04:56 PM

Welcome

You may want to goto the HDD Manufacturers website.
Their disk tools should help you repartition and format the drive.

Bad Dog · #3 December 2nd, 2004, 05:04 PM

Have you gone past the point of getting your system to boot to dos?
If not, at c prompt, type label
This brings a menu to put in a label name or just leave it blank.
You could also use a flop that has label.exe on it and type a:label c:
and do same as above.
Looks like you either got a virus or disk may be failing.
Good luck.
BD