fdisk problems

[inon^]

It's an IBM 20G disk. fdisk is reporting "Error in accessing drive". I turned the computer power off after creating partitions and before formatting the partitions. This must be the wrong thing to do.

How can I run fdisk again and partition again?

Please help.

[reboot]

Let the BIOS redetect the drive. If it can't, the drive is toast.
If it does, boot to a good floppy with fdisk on it, and try again.
If that fails, go to the IBM website, and get their disk utility. It works OK.

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[inon^]

I made two partitions C & D. I can access both these drives, can format em and run scandisk on them. But, the real problem is if I want to run fdisk again, it yells "Error reading disk".

[anskygamer]

inon, i had this problem recently. i was puzzled... then tried a different boot disk and worked fine... idk if this will help u any but good luck

[archie]

Make sure that the same version of fdisk is used. ie if you created the partition with the Win98 FDISK, don't use the Win95 FDISK ... if you have to go back to Win95, delete the partitions with Win98 FDISK first.

[inon^]

Thank you all guys, I downloaded a ZAP utility from IBM and the hard disk is up & running the way I wanted.

Only the MBR needs to be deleted and FAT needed to be altered. ZAP helped me to ZZap these.

Thanks.