running fdisk on a clean hard drive

[dayofdefeat909]

i have a totally clean hard drive, zeroed using active@killdisk, and i am wondering if i can somehow run fdisk. i know i'll have to boot from a cd or floppy but i'm not sure which one. any suggestions?

 

[brinks]

Use whatever one you have, as long as it works.

 

[dayofdefeat909]

ah i apologize for being so vague. i meant to ask where i can find information on how to do this. i have 6 xp pro sp1 boot disks but when i insert disk 6 i get the unmountable_boot_volume error. is there any way to run fdisk at all if the hard drive is completely zeroed and how do i do this?

 

[sPlAtOiD]

Use an win 98 or 95 disk. at the A: type fdisk select option 4 to view your partitions and see if you need to delete anything. If not use option 1 creat a active dos partition. and follow the prompts .Thats it.

 

[MrCoffee]

if your running XP then dont use Fdisk, use the recovery console and the format & diskpart commands.

Or better still just setup your primary partition during the windows installation then do the rest from in windows.

 

[OatesyX]

my question si why do you need to sue f disk if youve just reset the 0s