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Acronis Trueimage:sector read fails
... fails get the mfg HDD utility, boot from a floppy or the HDD utility floppy if it is bootable, go to the advanced utilities and pick write zeros to drive. the "can't decompress cabs" and the other erros I've been receiving. I've fdisked / mbr and fdisked the hard drive and then formatted. Stuck. Advice?

need low level format utility
Ramón_G_Castañe...@adobeforums.com adobe photoshop macintosh Once again the advice of Repairing Permissions before and after upgrading the OS as well as before and after The only way to test a hard drive with certainty is to back up everything, erase the drive and write it to zeros. There are a number of users

computer reboots during boot process
I sure hope lurkers did not fall into harms way from this advice. "19: I used the Alt-T, CTRL-F10 keyboard combination to remove Disk Manager, but it did not In either case, we suggest you use Data Lifeguard Tools to low-level format (write zeros) across the drive. To perform this operation, boot to the Data

formatting a harddrive with partitions
Advice? ms Then why all the skirt around, and skirt the issue stuff. Wipe the AC31000 with the WD software writing zeroes to it. Be done with it. a small utility wipeout to W98 boot disk, it would write zeros. Booted, get the NTLDR missing message, so can't get to A prompt to run the utility to wipe the drive.

please help- 2nd post
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:21:15 -0000, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote: You destructively restore the o/s, then maybe use an app to write zeros to the empty space, or if you want to be totally thorough you take a hammer to the hd That's good advice, Yes in fact it is, since physically destroying the platters is the *only*

fips
I've added an 8.4 GB HD, made it my primary drive and copied my old 1.4 GB HD to it. On the advice of Western Digital tech support, I used their install utility to "write to zeros" the entire disk. I then made the 1.4 an extended partition without dividing into logical drives. I want to use it as a backup

Incorrect bios translation on big hard disks.
Richard A. McCormick rich1...@mindspring.com alt os linux mandrake Hey CatfishFred, I had the same problem, I have a Gateway computer but the advice seems to Choose: write zeros (using the up/down keys on your keyboard) <enter>. If this doesn't work then try to get to an a:\ prompt with the CD in the drive and

Format Hard Drive
It's not the PC as I have tried this drive in 3 different PCs all with the same result. I have run a full sweep of IBM disk diagnostics and it doesn't come up with Make sure the BIOS does not have boot sector write protection enabled 2. Download zap.zip from ibm.com and use it to write zeros over the boot sector.

hard drive clicking
Example, back up data to oldest drive. Take newest, fastest drive and install on new mobo. Write zeros to the drive, or zap the first sectors or at least fdisk Since "nutcase" has already listed the best advice anyone could probably give here, I will just cut from his message (the author signed his name at the

deleting hidden files
tac/mokosh mok...@hyperaction.net 3do bad-attitude I just had to do a major clean up...had to write zeros to my hard drive. I could not give him advice, as everyone can tell I am computer challenged!! I am having trouble with my ISP, some of the posts I don't get until someone replies to the message,

ATA/100 and MSI 6120
Once you have the utility floppy created and booted see if you can find an option to write zeros to the drive. If you find this function let it zero the first I will appreciate any and all advice for I am out of ideas. Thank You Mark -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ -- Posted via CNET Help.com

1782- Disk Controller Failure
... site and/or WRITE ZEROs to the entire drive if it still does the same (stops at 20-25%) its defective(the utils from manuf site should pick this up already) HTH, windows setup - required 7340032 bytes available.. and then it freezes .. its a 233mhz pentium 2 i believe or 1.. any advice greatly appreciated.

BYRON NEEDS HELP!
The Diagnostics utility allows you to test the drive, print results for last drive tested, repair errors found during the Test Drive option and write zeros to the drive. Pepperoni Thanks! That was excellent advice. Actually, running the Windows version of the Western Digital diagnostic utility pointed me, I hope,

West Digital WD400 has only 33.8gb capacity
Modern IDE drives basically ignore the LLF command and just write zeros thru the sectors on the drive. The drive manufacturer's ute may well do defect management when it The reply included this advice: ... EZ-Drive is one of those annoying little programs/drivers that enables older BIOSes to access large drivs.

Extended partition problems
... and will require you to find an extremely low level disk access program which can run from bootable floppy and can write zeros over the entire disk drive. Any input / advice would be greatly appreciated. One person from the enigma list has given me a suggestion but I would like more input if posssible.

Help! WinXP can't tell that my 2nd hard drive is already formatted
Can someone clarify this conflicting advice? The story has got considerably scrambled over time and there is a lot of variation in just what low level formatting Modern IDE drives will just write zeros thru the sectors on the drive when told to do a LLF, like with say that function in the motherboard bios.

Low level formatting HD
BIT...@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: QEMM virus report (V91 #4) That person has some serious misinformation, I'm afraid; the 648 virus, while it does contain those 5 bytes, doesn't infect EXE files or overlays (unless they have the extension "COM"), and doesn't write zeros into files as he describes.

Striving for system stability (off topic)
BoB rbrt...@worldnet.att.net alt computer Want to be absolutely sure you get it all, write zeros to the drive. Use only write protected floppies made on a non-infected computer. Randy Lefferts wrote: Tak, Thank you for your tips. I fear that it has come time to format again, now that the virii are cleaned.

fdisk, format, w2k install, yet get "unidentified operating ...
I believe in this case, the EZ Drive low level format simply writes all zero's to the drive, I don't think it wipes out the sectors and tracks on the HD. I could be wrong about that, but it has worked like a charm for me. Sorry if I posted bad advice. hey Rick, I still wouldn't write zeros to the drive for a

HD Partition to small???
If anyone has advice or utilities I would greatly appreciate either. I would rather try and recover this hard drive than replace it because it would be very Second, if you use a "LLF" utility, it will write zeros to all the data sectors (which isn'ta bad thing), and will return the drive to a state where you'll