Find a boot disk ( http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm) and boot off that. (I usually use the Win98 SE one - seems to have everything you might need plus CD ROM Drive support)
The disk will boot to DOS. Type FDISK and press enter. This will get you into FDISK, i.e. the software used to partition the drive. Delete everything that's there (you usually have to do it in a certain order - partitions defined in the extended DOS partition, then the extended DOS partition, then the primary DOS partition I think), and then re create one Primary DOS partition that spans the entire drive. (FDISK is really easy to use, just a bunch of menu options really)
Tip: Sometimes Linux creates a partition that you can't 'see' with FDISK. You try and delete the extended DOS partition and you get an error saying you can't delete the extended DOS partition cos there are other partitions defined in it (or something along those lines) even though FDISK tells you the extended DOS partition is empty. In this case, either use a different partition program, or use a 'low level formatter'. Seagate DiskWizard will write zero's to the entire disk, including partitions and format information.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html
Then you can go into FDISK, and create a Primary DOS partition that spans the entire drive.
Once you've got the Primary DOS partition, restart, boot off the floppy, and type
FORMAT C: (enter)
to format it as a simple FAT32 drive. (If you're going to use it in/for a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 PC then I'd reccomend formatiing it to NTFS instead of FAT32, but you'll need one of those versions of Windows to do that.)
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Minaki Serinde MCP
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