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How do you get your hard drive into DOS mode so it can be formatted with Vista?
There is no "DOS mode" for a hard drive, and it is not necessary to use DOS to format a hard drive. Vista's installer had a built-in partitioner and formatter.
How do you access the hard drive in MS-DOS?
If MS-DOS is installed and booted from the drive, it can be accessed immediately at the command prompt. If you have booted from an MS-DOS floppy, you can access the hard drive by typing C:
The DOS utility used to create and delete partitions on a hard disk is called?
fdisk.
What is the name of the Seagate utility that can be used to test a hard drive and diagnose a hard drive problem?
SeaTools for Windows and Dos.
How to delete files without starting windows?
You have couple choices. The first one is to connect the hard with your files to another desktop and delete it from there. The second choice is to use a dos utility with allows to write/delete in ntfs system, if you don't have ntfs you can use any dos file manager (for instance, Volkov Commander which is free). In the last case you will have to boot ms-dos which is not hard at all.
What type of DOS hard drive partition can contain only one logical drive?
primary
What are the difference between dos and chkdsk?
DOS is an operating system. CHKDSK is an application that check the hard drive for errors.
How do you format a hard drive in DOS?
if you want to fromat a hard drive for windowsXP then read this... /a< you will need your winXP cd This a fast trick to get you computer in DOS mode. Power off your computer then power it back on, while your computer is turning on keep pressing F8 repeatedly until you computer prompts you how you want to run. Some of your options will be run in safe mode, run in safe mode with networking, but you will select run in DOS mode. Once your in your DOS mode then you are ready to go!
What DOS command is used to partition a hard drive for FAT file system?
FDISK
What is the Name of the Windows 98 DOS command that is used to partion a hard drive?
FDISK
No driver for hard disk detected what to do?
You need to be more specific with the question. The operating system say windows uses a generic driver for the hard drive, so if the computer did not see the hard drive you would not see anything, because the system would not run and you would only have DOS.
When saving a disk save to drive a or c?
In Windows, Drive C: is the first hard drive.On the PC compatibles (DOS then Windows, which was a program running under DOS), drive A: was reserved for the first floppy disk drive and B: for the second floppy disk drive. Drive C: was reserved for the first hard drive.Many computers don't even have floppy drives anymore, but the first hard drive is still labeled C:
