FDISK. COM fdisk info I often get questions about the DOS program FDISK. I dont mind the questions. I know a fair amount about partitioning drives. Just be aware I had nothing. Viewers of BBCs News at Ten were entranced last night when a glitch in its system produced over four minutes of surreal beauty. A listing of bootdisks for Windows and Linux machines as well as utilities for troubleshooting hardware and operating system issues. All logos, trademarks, and comments on this site are property of their respective owner. All other content is 2017 by Jared Breland, and licensed under the Creative. Jump to separate pages Essential DOS 5. Power Toys this page DOS Software on the Internet mostly freeware this page SPEEDUP BENCHMARK TOOLS. If you want certified help then. If you were looking for some walkthroughs or someone looking for. Can I repartition my hard disk into one large partition without loosing my. It isnt as simple as it might seem. Any applications not on the C. They wont work very. Its also more of a pain then it might seem to change. Basically, if you dont already know. This debug script from Bill. This should help if your drive is so messed up. Alternatively, if youd rather not contend with. DEBUG, a simple program called Partition. Zapper is available at http www. If your fdisk is having problems or you are in need of a copy, you can get. FreeDOS Fdisk which is now ready. Spam On Thursday July 5, 2012 I like traffic lights said What the heck is wrong with the file extensions I used WinImage to write the images on the floppies, and. DOS version. This can also handle many partition jobs that regular fdisk fails on. Tom Kuurstra and Joep van Steen of DIY Data. Recovery have created a. MBR information. One tool can even modify saved MBR. They are also willing to help people personally as long as you. HDD provides disaster. Before and after the event. Diskman is another up and coming. James Clark. Mount and. Zhan. Feng also makes something called diskman, but everything is in Chinese so I have no idea what its deal is. If you happen to get the CIH virus, here is a program that can potentially. I havent tried. it yet as I dont have a CIH infected computer. Also, remember that you should. BIOS date on the infected computer to early 1. Good luck. Here is another free recovery tool at grc. There are some handy disk utilities at simtelnet especially in the bootutil. You can also use their excellent search to find other tools. You could also look around http www. PCHelp. LIVE. com also has a booting soltion for people in need as well as other PC help stuff. If you are looking for a technical description on the subject of partitions. Partition. Tables Focus on OS2 0. If you dig reading then PC Guides enormous Hard Disk Drives reference section is sure to interest you. If you are looking for a tutorial on partitioning your drive, try Weendoggys Homepage. Microsoft Support on How. Install Windows 9. Computer with No Operating System. Dans Data has a good page on Upgrading your hard drive. Computer Hope has. They also have some more information. Wondering what the Volume Serial Number is all about Check Brett Glasss site and. Old hard drive specs can be found at The. Ref. and Blue Planet. People who badly need to recover their lostdeleted data should try Lost and Found by Powerquest. You have to buy it to get your data restored, but I have been told it is very. If you want a supported product for resizing disk partitions then you should. Partition. Magic or Partition Commander. If you are willing to live dangerously, there is a free program called FIPS that can do nondestructive. It does not join partitions. I have used. it once or twice in the past and it worked great, but I URGE everyone to read. Dos 6.22 Floppy Images' title='Dos 6.22 Floppy Images' />The Partition Resizer is one I havent tried, but it looks promising. The Randish Partition. Manager site hasfree software that can manipulatesave partitions as well. It also has a primer on partitioning and some other great. I have not tried the Ranish Partition Manager yet myself. Here are some links that people sent me. Yaru pointed me to http how. PartitionDoctor. It is both the download location and instructions on using Partition Doctor. He also has some good partition site links. Andrew sent over a link on Dr Solomons. FDISK MBR to kill viruses. I dont. agree that you should never use it, but it was a good read anyhow. Robert sent me the following link that contains a few more fdisk switches. I have http www. Undocumented FDISK. He also has a good install info page for win. Alan found a great link at Maxtor that covers hard drive capacity. MB, 2. 1 GB, 4. 2 GB and. GB limitations are covered. One thing to note, however, I got a message. Kat that said when she installed a new drive with Maxblasts EZ BIOS. I have no idea if it was a bios. Anantya sent over a link to Seagates info on hard drive capacity. They also have a downloadable copy of their diskmanager. Seagate drive that you cant get you computer to fully utilize. Ghostsoft They make a nice disk. HDCopy Apparently a HD copy utility. I know nothing about them. Gibson Research Corporation They make. Spin. Rite utility for repairing drives Yes, it still exists. If you. have an IOMega Zip or Jaz drive, you might want to check out their Click. Of Death Research Resource Page which has a test for the problem. Master. Booter makes a companion. EFDISK. They say it can be completely. Untested by me. Someone sent me an FDISK. HLP. zip Windows help. FDISK. I didnt even know that one was available Walter mentioned an old dos utility called delpart that can be easily found. It. can be found in the file systems section of the very nice Savill. Tech. NTFAQ site which has all sorts of good NT stuff. If you are looking for information on NT file systems, check out the file. Walter turned me on to them when he introduced me to the delpart program for. It is still there, but now I recommend the. Somebody from Codework sent over a link for Rapi. Deploy, an imagingcloning. Here is an interesting link to Circuitmasters HD tech. Roy. They have some interesting info. Ken over at ACR Data Recovery. Services says that a few of my visitors told him to ask for a link. He. has software that is used for repairing boot sectors and partition tables. DOS, Win. 959. 8 and Win. NT2. 00. 0 FAT1. FAT3. NTFS formatted hard drives. Sounds like good stuff Check it out at http www. If you want to pay someone to recover your data, http www. If you are looking for raw info about drives and stuff, PC Guide has some. Hard. Disk Drives section I received a nice e mail from a person named James that I thought I would pass. It contains a bit of info that may help others. I had a problem which I have never seen before and I been a systems. I had this 4. 2. GB Fujitsu drive that I was. It had a primary partition, and an extended partition. I tried to delete the extended partition. I kept getting an error saying that I couldnt delete the extended partition. So I try to delete the logical drives, but there. So I was stuck on it for an hour. I got desperate and decided. I would a site that had very little info but had just what. I needed. The site specified that there are undocumented switches that work. FDISK. I already knew that there was an MBR switch to repair the master. I has to use it many times. I found much moreI was. Then. I was able to delete the logical, extended, then finally the primary partition. I though that you may find these useful and could possibly post them on your. Here they are. Undocumented or little known FDISK parameters. FDISK 1PRI 1. 00 Command line to create a 1. DOS partition on hard. FDISK 1EXT 5. 00 Command line to create a 5. DOS partition. on hard drive 1. FDISK 1LOG 2. 50 Command line to create a 2. FDISK STATUS Shows you the current status of your hard drives. FDISK MBR Repair the master boot record. FDISK X Ignores extended disk access support. Use this switch if you. John Mc. Donald clarified the q switch. FDISK Q prevents fdisk from booting the system automatically. Kim Rickaby has seen this as a result of DOSWin. Software Serial Esp8266 At Commands. What it turned out to be is that I was booting to a 6.