63597, RE: Mouse and Keyboard Freeze after Win2K loads Posted by Bob G, Wed Apr-24-02 10:35 AM
Okay, I'm out of my area here, but one thing is clear. In some fashion, you have your entire HDD as one primary partition. Since fdisk doesn't see it, it must be a Win2K thing.
If I were you, I'd use the 2K CD to delete that partition - you want to get it so no matter how you look at it, there's nothing on that HDD.
Of course, I don't know anything about how 2K does it's partitioning thing, so maybe it can create partitions without resizing the existing one or something - but that doesn't make any sense. See, the way it's reading now, you don't have any room for any more drives/partitions because C: is taking it all up. You'd have to resize C: smaller to have room to add anything. Maybe this is a normal situation for 2K, but it sounds weird enough to me to just start over and do it right with fdisk from the beginning.
The idea here to me is to start from absolute scratch, which would mean installing Windows again because you need to get all partitioning off that HDD. This all might have started a long time ago. I remember you were having trouble with PM and had to redo it a few times. I swear Wes, if a person bought a new HDD and installed and partitioned it without making any mistakes, it's a few hours, mostly waiting around while it formats and then you're good to go. If nothing goes wrong it's pretty easy. That's why I'd like to see you start from scratch. Look at it this way - if you've got a partition on there that you can't easily delete, something is wrong. Better to deal with that now, than have it bite you down the road when there's data to lose. Just me thinking out loud, but that's what I'd do.
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