removeable floppy drive bad, how to FDISK

[docmeyer]

I'm crying with frustration, my boss wants me to FDISK the hard drive on one of our laptops and send it in, no problem. The laptops have swappable floopy/cd rom drives. I look all over and find one floppy drive (also it's a Super Disk drive), insert a boot disk, and it sounds like a 99 year old washing machine, it totally bypasses the floppy after a few minutes and boots up into Windows. Tried putting the floppy in another laptop, using a Super Disk and making a boot disk, but no luck. The floppy drive is hozed. I thought I could figure this one out, but I can't, how am I going to FDISK the drive?

TIA

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[ayjaycee]

Can't you do a Start -> Shutdown -> Restart in DOS mode and then do FDISK from there?

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[docmeyer]

It's 2000 Pro.

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[ayjaycee]

Presumably you can't
1: use a floppy drive from another laptop?
2: connect a CD-ROM & boot from the W2K CD?
3: put the hard disk into another laptop & FDISK it from there?

Otherwise - no ideas :-(

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[bgauntt]

I am running Win2000 as well and if your BIOS supports booting from CD, then I would copy the boot files onto a CD if you have a burner somewhere and set up to boot from CD.

 

[lizzard394]

I would try to get another flop y drive and go that route, or you can take the hard drive and hook it to another computer, using an ide controller card

 

[docmeyer]

HELLO! Back to some good ol' Windows basics, I just grabbed a bootable NT server disk and wiped out the partitions. Geez I feel dumb!

Thanks all!

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