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Have lost 3 gig
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mscallisto
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Can fdisk see the 3 partitions?
If yes, have you formatted the 30% partition?
If yes, have you formatted the 30% partition?
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You shouldn't have to set a partition active to format it. Setting it active is so that it may boot an operating system. If you boot from a floppy can you see all the drives in a DOS environment? If you switch to it and it says "invalid media type" then it needs to be formatted, if it says "invalid drive specification" then there is something wrong with the partition. You should be able to see all three from fdisk though.
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