access to hard disk

I HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER P111 800 THAT I AM USING FOR TRAINING.i HAVE INSTALLED
WINDOWS ME, I NOW WANT TO PARTITION AND RE-FORMAT THE HD FROM DOS. AT THE A:\
PROMPT I TYPE FDISK, WHEN THE FDISK OPTIONS PAGE IS DISPLAYD, I GET A
FLASHING MESSAGE. UNABLE TO ACCESS DRIVE 1
ANY IDEAS?

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I HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER P111 800 THAT I AM USING FOR TRAINING.i HAVE
INSTALLED WINDOWS ME, I NOW WANT TO PARTITION AND RE-FORMAT THE HD
FROM DOS. AT THE A:\ PROMPT I TYPE FDISK, WHEN THE FDISK OPTIONS PAGE
IS DISPLAYD, I GET A FLASHING MESSAGE. UNABLE TO ACCESS DRIVE 1
ANY IDEAS?

Left hand side of the keyboard - shift lock or caps lock... Who knows? Maybe
it prevents you from entering the BIOS and double checking to ensure the
drive is recognized.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

Have you tried another Floppy disk?

Is the drive too large to be recognised correctly by the BIOS? are you using
Drive overlay software for example?

Drive 1?

Boot drive would normally be Drive 0

You could use the CD-ROM to prepare the HD, just boot with your operating
system CD and follow the prompts.

TT
"DEAFLUGGS" wrote in message
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I HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER P111 800 THAT I AM USING FOR TRAINING.i HAVE
INSTALLED
WINDOWS ME, I NOW WANT TO PARTITION AND RE-FORMAT THE HD FROM DOS. AT THE
A:\
PROMPT I TYPE FDISK, WHEN THE FDISK OPTIONS PAGE IS DISPLAYD, I GET A
FLASHING MESSAGE. UNABLE TO ACCESS DRIVE 1
ANY IDEAS?

Hi Time traveller, yes i have tried another floppy,no joy, nothing has been
altered in the BIOS. I have tried the floppy that i originally used to
partition and install the operating system, now that i want to practice
changing partitions and re-fomatting from the DOS prompt i am being refused
access.

"TimeTraveller" wrote:

Have you tried another Floppy disk?

Is the drive too large to be recognised correctly by the BIOS? are you using
Drive overlay software for example?

Drive 1?

Boot drive would normally be Drive 0

You could use the CD-ROM to prepare the HD, just boot with your operating
system CD and follow the prompts.

TT
"DEAFLUGGS" wrote in message
...
I HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER P111 800 THAT I AM USING FOR TRAINING.i HAVE
INSTALLED
WINDOWS ME, I NOW WANT TO PARTITION AND RE-FORMAT THE HD FROM DOS. AT THE
A:\
PROMPT I TYPE FDISK, WHEN THE FDISK OPTIONS PAGE IS DISPLAYD, I GET A
FLASHING MESSAGE. UNABLE TO ACCESS DRIVE 1
ANY IDEAS?

Galen/Time Traveller, thanks for the help, got it solved. Finally got the
puter to accept a re-installation of the ME operating system and hey presto
it cleared the FDISK fault, the original installation must have corrupted it
somehow.
Cheers

"DEAFLUGGS" wrote:

I HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER P111 800 THAT I AM USING FOR TRAINING.i HAVE INSTALLED
WINDOWS ME, I NOW WANT TO PARTITION AND RE-FORMAT THE HD FROM DOS. AT THE A:\
PROMPT I TYPE FDISK, WHEN THE FDISK OPTIONS PAGE IS DISPLAYD, I GET A
FLASHING MESSAGE. UNABLE TO ACCESS DRIVE 1
ANY IDEAS?