Compaq FDISK problem??

[Legendiva]

I am in the midst of an FDISK/FORMAT on a Compaq ( had been a Slave, my husband got from work. Very messed up file system ). I am using the 3 necessary Compaq Diskettes. When I have made the Selection of which # Primary DOS Partition I want to Delete, and have hit Enter, it calls for the Volume Label. The Volume Label is listed as: "Al" ( lowercase "L" ). The system does not PERMIT me to enter ANY lowercase letters! I can only enter "AL". I get the message that the "Volume Label does not match" and I can go no further. Why can I not enter Capital Letters? Is there any way around such a thing???

 

[edfair]

Yes.
First , the reason. Your drive was fdisked with another version O/S. Probably 98 or 98SE. It automatically labelled the drive that way.
You can use another version of O/S, like 6.22 DOS to delete the partition, or the same version as originally put it there, to also delete it.
Looking at it with another version will probably show it as "AL", which will be reachable.
When you say wierd, do you mean 32 bit, labelled as fat32? Ed Fair
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[Legendiva]

Just wanted to share a simple workaround a friend showed me:
RENAME the Drive (containing the offending inacessible Partition Volume Label), Reboot and start again. You can acess it now, no problem!