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I am running windows 98 se. Problem:

I set up a friends computer incorrectly. His 20GB hard drive only has
2GB capacity.

I ran FDisk to discover the remaining 18GN waiting to be formatted and
partitioned. Firstly is there anyway to do this without reformatting
the whole thing. I tried it running through what I think are the
correct steps and recieved the following error afterwards:

"Write protect error writing fixed disk"

How can I solve this?

Another solution I tried was using Ranish Partition Manager. However
when I went to save the changes I recieved the following message:

"Error writing MBR or EMBR to disk."

Is this the same problem as before? What can I do.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Richard

Richard wrote:

> I am running windows 98 se. Problem:
>
> I set up a friends computer incorrectly. His 20GB hard drive only has
> 2GB capacity.

Sounds like the HD is partitioned as FAT and not FAT32.

> I ran FDisk to discover the remaining 18GN waiting to be formatted and
> partitioned. Firstly is there anyway to do this without reformatting
> the whole thing. I tried it running through what I think are the
> correct steps and recieved the following error afterwards:
>
> "Write protect error writing fixed disk"
>
> How can I solve this?
>
> Another solution I tried was using Ranish Partition Manager. However
> when I went to save the changes I recieved the following message:
>
> "Error writing MBR or EMBR to disk."

Partition Magic V8 should be able to do want you want. Alternatively as
you've only got a max of 2GB of data/programs on the HD, backup what you
need (do you have a CD burner?), repartition the whole HD as FAT32 and
reinstall 98 + whatever.
--
Paul S

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 22:12:43 +0100, In this world we created
"johnfletch" <> wrote :

>win 98 se has a fat 32 convertor in accessories
>tried it on my 6 gig drive ok
>cheers, john

This will only convert the existing partition.It will not resize the
partition to fix the OP's problem :/
User needs 3rd party software like Partition Manager or Paragon
Partition Manager.
There is a free partitioning resizer program called,"Ranish Partition
Manager" however last time I looked and tried to use it,it's not,"User
Friendly".


>
>"paul s" <> wrote in message
>newsXjNa.1516$...
>> Richard wrote:
>>
>> > I am running windows 98 se. Problem:
>> >
>> > I set up a friends computer incorrectly. His 20GB hard drive only has
>> > 2GB capacity.
>>
>> Sounds like the HD is partitioned as FAT and not FAT32.
>>
>> > I ran FDisk to discover the remaining 18GN waiting to be formatted and
>> > partitioned. Firstly is there anyway to do this without reformatting
>> > the whole thing. I tried it running through what I think are the
>> > correct steps and recieved the following error afterwards:
>> >
>> > "Write protect error writing fixed disk"
>> >
>> > How can I solve this?
>> >
>> > Another solution I tried was using Ranish Partition Manager. However
>> > when I went to save the changes I recieved the following message:
>> >
>> > "Error writing MBR or EMBR to disk."
>>
>> Partition Magic V8 should be able to do want you want. Alternatively as
>> you've only got a max of 2GB of data/programs on the HD, backup what you
>> need (do you have a CD burner?), repartition the whole HD as FAT32 and
>> reinstall 98 + whatever.
>> --
>> Paul S
>>
>>
>



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Shep© <> wrote in message news:<>. ..
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 22:12:43 +0100, In this world we created
> "johnfletch" <> wrote :
>
> >win 98 se has a fat 32 convertor in accessories
> >tried it on my 6 gig drive ok
> >cheers, john
>
> This will only convert the existing partition.It will not resize the
> partition to fix the OP's problem :/
> User needs 3rd party software like Partition Manager or Paragon
> Partition Manager.
> There is a free partitioning resizer program called,"Ranish Partition
> Manager" however last time I looked and tried to use it,it's not,"User
> Friendly".
>
>
> >
> >"paul s" <> wrote in message
> >newsXjNa.1516$...
> >> Richard wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am running windows 98 se. Problem:
> >> >
> >> > I set up a friends computer incorrectly. His 20GB hard drive only has
> >> > 2GB capacity.
> >>
> >> Sounds like the HD is partitioned as FAT and not FAT32.
> >>
> >> > I ran FDisk to discover the remaining 18GN waiting to be formatted and
> >> > partitioned. Firstly is there anyway to do this without reformatting
> >> > the whole thing. I tried it running through what I think are the
> >> > correct steps and recieved the following error afterwards:
> >> >
> >> > "Write protect error writing fixed disk"
> >> >
> >> > How can I solve this?
> >> >
> >> > Another solution I tried was using Ranish Partition Manager. However
> >> > when I went to save the changes I recieved the following message:
> >> >
> >> > "Error writing MBR or EMBR to disk."
> >>
> >> Partition Magic V8 should be able to do want you want. Alternatively as
> >> you've only got a max of 2GB of data/programs on the HD, backup what you
> >> need (do you have a CD burner?), repartition the whole HD as FAT32 and
> >> reinstall 98 + whatever.
> >> --

Hi thanks. I tried using Ranish if you see my post above and
encountered those problems.

Thanks

Richard
> >> Paul S
> >>
> >>
> >