You don't just run fdisk to partition or clean drives, sometimes you need to check if drives are showing up. But I used the fdisk as an example only. I couldn't think of anything else in DOS at that time...............however, your comment about booting from the floppy is valid. Billy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McLellan" <bobmclellan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: AVG doesn't run in safe mode > That would be interesting. You have just run 'fdisk', which wipes out your > harddrive and now you want to run windows? Or do you mean that you have two > harddrives? Or do you mean that you started 'fdisk' to look at the > partition table which you can do in a windows/ dos atmosphere in which case > you type 'exit'. OR did you start in DOS with a floppy, in which case you > will have to reboot because you didn't load your config.sys. > > Not enough info in your question. :-) > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.701 / Virus Database: 458 - Release Date: 07/06/2004 -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.