partially formated drive

[dodgechrist]

I: Drive WD400BB
Fdisked whole thing. Partitioned into roughly 4 10's
Formated the first 2.
Instlled 98se on the primary
So far groovy.
Now i'm in 98 and want to format the remaining 2 10's. Cant see them, cant hear them (joking) seriously though. How do I format drives I can't see. Or do I go to a command prompt and do it from there?
Thanks DC

[Rick]

shut down and or reboot to the dos promt
Then youcan use format to finish the job.

When you rebbot to windows they will be there

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[Paleo Pete]

Rick is correct, and it must be done from true DOS, not a DOS prompt within Windows. Neither OS will use a partition until it is formatted, but DOS will recognize it while Windows will not.

Use the [F8] key or hold down [Ctrl] to get a boot menu, Command Prompt Only is the option you want, or you can boot to a win98 start up disk and do it from A:\>.

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