-=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
- From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:47:58 -0700
We seemed to have a little confusion heah!
When Sandy said she inserted the CD and rebooted I assumed the machine
booted to the CD and came up with the interface she sent??
I'm beginning to see the picture here now...........
The machine booted into Windows and she opened E:\ to get that page.
She had mentioned she checked on making a bootable CD and I thought she was
successful?
The format of the page threw me I guess? I use Detail View and don't get the
pretty stuff when I open a CD, or anything else for that matter, lol.
I follow you now............ if she sets the boot order to CD first, the
machine should boot into Super Fdisk and we'll never see that page with all
the pretties on it....................... Super Fdisk looks much different,
lol!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
> Sandy,
> From the image you sent me, it appears as though your image burn was
> completely successful. I can see that the burning process resulted in the
> contents of the image being burned to your disk. That was the hard part,
> believe it or not.
>
> The next step is to boot directly to that CD disk instead of letting
> the
> system boot into Windows. You received that window showing you the
> contents
> because XP is set up to Autoplay new disks as they're recognized. This
> time, you'll need to reboot and look for a line of text (white letters on
> a
> black background) that says something like "Press any key to boot from the
> optical drive". It will appear all by itself at the top of the screen
> just
> before Windows begins loading and will only give you a couple of seconds
> to
> hit a key to tell it to do that. If you're not sure what key to press,
> just
> use the spacebar or the Enter key.
>
> If you don't see a line like that, it means your BIOS is set up to boot
> from the hard drive first and we'll need to venture into the BIOS to
> change
> that setting. It's not hard to do, but it might seem a little daunting if
> you've never been in there before.
>
> Let us know whether or not you see that line. Of course, if you do see
> it, go ahead and run the program on that CD. lol
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 1:18 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>
>
>>I ran a scan, the results I sent in another email.........I replied to
>> Sandi's email cause she told me how to get to where the scan results
>> were.
>>
>> ok, you know what Roger................I don't know what to do at this
>> point?
>> I googled my burning software and found where/and how to burn an image.
>> Ok I did so and when I put it in the drive and rebooted all that happened
>> was a window opened up showing me all the stuff that's on the image CD.
>>
>> If you and/or GMan don't mind I'm going to send privately to you both
>> a pic of what I saw after rebooting with the image CD of SuperFDisk on
>> it.
>>
>> Sandy
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:31 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>
>>
>>> Sandy,
>>>
>>> Do you have a diagnosis on your clicking drive?
>>>
>>> If it's ok and you want to proceed we'll have to make some changes.
>>> Actually
>>> you have to make a new CD for Super Fdisk to make it work.
>>> The iso you downloaded is an image and you have to burn that "image" to
>>> CD.
>>> You don't get involved with data anywhere in the process!
>>> The image or iso is already set up to make the CD bootable when the
>>> digital
>>> image is transferred to the CD.
>>> Your CD burning software should have an option in the burn type to "Burn
>>> an
>>> Image to Disk" or similar. If it's not capable of burning an image
>>> you'll
>>> have to download a different burning program.
>>>
>>> Insert bland disk in CD Burner
>>> Select Burn Image to Disk
>>> Load Super Fdisk in the files area.
>>> There will just be one file and it has to have the iso extension........
>>> The iso is the negative and you're going to burn a pretty postive onto a
>>> CD,
>>> lol
>>> Once the picture is burned onto the CD just load it into the drive and
>>> reboot.
>>> You should wind up in the user interface of Super Fdisk.
>>> OK
>>> There's a little more help in my original post at the bottom of this
>>> page.
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:10 PM
>>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>> yeah my 120gb shows up as 111 gb so IF I could make anything work I'd
>>>> probably
>>>> be able to tell that part ok............i think, lol.
>>>> Sandy
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:37 PM
>>>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I can't stress enough the importance of making absolutely sure that the
>>>>> drive you're about to format is the right one, Sandy. I don't know
>>>>> what
>>>>> the
>>>>> interface of this program looks like, but you should be able to see
>>>>> the
>>>>> sizes of the drives it recognizes somewhere. It will be reported as a
>>>>> little smaller than what the manufacturer says it can hold, but that's
>>>>> normal. For instance, my 320GB drive shows up as a 298.08GB drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peace,
>>>>> Gman
>>>>>
>>>>> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:27 PM
>>>>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, remove the CD or you'll boot back into Super Fdisk again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The interface is so simple even I can understand it.
>>>>>> A large window showing the attached drives and a couple of tool bars
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> top.
>>>>>> All very intuitive and easy to follow.
>>>>>> The toolbars are similar to Windows Explorer........... nothing
>>>>>> confusing.
>>>>>> When you hit File/Exit at the top you'll be dropped back to the A:\
>>>>>> prompt.............. black screen, flickering A prompt.
>>>>>> Just remove the CD and hit your reset button and you're off and
>>>>>> running.
>>>>>> That's a big drive on a USB connection so if it will format it's
>>>>>> going
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> take quite awhile........ patience is the keyword!
>>>>>
>>>
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