I have an old PC with a HDD that was using Double Space. Since I do not need the extra space, and want to minimise the system use of RAM, I attempted to re-format the drive normally.
After typing fdisk c:
, which (IIRC) did not produce any errors, the drive is now responding "Invalid media type" to any attempt to use it. I have tried format c:
, fdisk /mbr
, just fdisk
, with identical results, "Invalid media type reading drive C". It is MS-DOS 5.0.
Any simple solutions? Which Norton tool should I use?
According to the BIOS diagnostics the drive is ok.
Clarification: I have never booted from this drive, always from flash cards in A: or C: (with no HD installed). All the slots A-D are PCMCIA. It is a HP Omnibook.
More clarification: the reason I mentioned DS is that I first tried to just format
the drive, but it said I needed to use a DS-command (cannot remember the name), so I tried fdisk
instead, which seemed to work, but after that it has been "invalid media type" at any mention of C:
.
Also, there is only 4MB of RAM, so Norton Disk Doctor and some other Norton tools I tried do not run.
Addition: please note that this problem is solved. Thanks to all who replied.
FDISK
deals with this.)fips
first).fdisk
should work, so I am not sure what I did wrong.