On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:56:40 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry,
>But you didn't tell it to write an MBR? FDISK should automatic update the MBR when quit (or I'm wrong?) >OK, but if there was no MBR, this may not create one. That's what my >earlier post was all about. Can you try this (all data will be lost) > >1. Boot FreeDOS on a floppy (or whatever) Make sure FDISK is 1.3.x or above > >2. FDISK /CLEARALL 1 Ha ha ... some days ago I've tried already ... failed. After the MS-DOS FDISK, I feel strange that only 8GB (Eric explained it's cause by CHS), okay ... try again with FreeDOS ... this time works! >(that's a number one assuming your physical drive number is one) > >3. FDISK /MBR Also tried. >4. FDISK /PRI:2000 What is it? After it works, I can't fail it again (or I can try break and rebuild the RAID), next week I'll try again. >5. <Reboot it> > >6. FORMAT C: /S > >7. <Reboot it again> > >What happens now? Please wait a few days, I'll try it Monday afternoon. >Yes, that's what I'm thinking. The problems will arise when you can't do >multi-tasking and multi-threading, and utilizing full power of load >balancing on dual XEON:( yeah ... Dual CPU will have problem, wasting one of the CPU. Too bad there's no more Desqview .... I love it. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user