An even bigger problem :(
 

Hi, I'm the one that wrote about the windows version topic. For all of those who helped, thank you very much. Well, I was on my way to installing my graphics card's latest drivers, when a notification came up saying something about windows does not recommend it. I chose the option to continue anyway, and my screen just turned black. Every time I tried restarting, it just turned black. Well, I don't know what I did, but I was trying to format, and it said that my harddrive cables were either unplugged, or something couldn't be found. I know my cables were perfect (I checked later on and they were), but it still wouldn't let me format. It said the same message, and at the end of the message it said to run "FDISK" or something to that effect. I ran it, and it kept giving me options and blindly, I randomly inserted choices hoping to get out of the mess, I got in it even deeper. Yes, it did let me format, but Windows couldn't install fully, because my once 40 gig harddrive suddenly only became a "2 gig" HDD. I guess that happened because of the settings, but now I really can't do anything. I tried putting in the recovery disk and restarting, I tried everything. I even scanned my harddrive for errors, and nothing came up. Now, I have Windows ME on a 2 gig harddrive wtih 800 kb's left. Can someone PLEASE help me?

My grattitude towards you is eternal.

Yeah and by the way, sorry for posting 2 topics in such a short amount of time :(

Please, anyone?

Reformat the hard drive using FDISK again, but choose NTFS or FAT32 as your file table. You chose FAT 16, which only supports partitions of about 2 gigs in size.


-edit- Just read the other thread, I would format with NTFS. You may or may not be able to just boot from your XP CD and allow it do do a quick format and change your partitions from there without the need of FDISK. I at least thing I'm thinking right on this one. Someone will correct me if I am wrong.

be patient, grasshopper. lots of people browse during the day. give this thread a coupla days before turning needy. needy is annoying and generally looked down upon.

Man, ain't that the truth. Follow Bamrak's advice. Formatting with an NTFS partition is the best option to follow through on at this point.

sounds like you formated teh drive as fat 16? that would limit you to about 2 gigs.

pop in the xp/2k cd and try again, format the drive as ntfs or fat32 (preferable ntsf)

which is what Bamrak said...

I'm not sure what your hard drive is configured to now, but, just to make sure, run FDISK, and press the delete partition option. Go through and delete all partitions you have created. You may have to delete some "logical drives" in the partitons - just make sure you have a 100% empty drive. No drives, no partitions. That will give you a 100% clean start - nothing at all on the drive. Then create a new partition, NTFS or FAT32, select "use 100% of available space", a hit ok. Then format the partition and do a clean install of windows onto that.

Only note is, although I'm sure you're aware of it, formatting and following this advice will make you lose everything on your drive - you'll have a totally blank disk to start with. Make sure there's nothing on there you want to keep!

Good luck mate!

Well, I was greedy at the time, so I asked help from a friend and it turned out it worked :D What it was, was that I had FAT16 and didn't even realise it. What I had to do was undo that and redo it as an FAT32. This uncapped the size until it's maximum astonishing, jaw dropping 40 gigs :D

Thanks for all the help, and I appologize if I was a nuisance to anyone :(