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Advice needed on iMac HD upgrade please
Advice? ms I should have mentioned, before the above, I used Zap suggested by Ron Badour to wipe the hard drive, so it started the above in a wiped condition. The author of the page referenced above writes: "As I understand it, WIPE suffers from the old 8 GB barrier meaning it will write zeros up to only 8GB.

Extended partition problems
I'm just guessing here (actually trying to encourage others to reply), but you might have to use something like IBM's utility WIPE to write zeros over your entire disk. Again, because something (either NT or Win9x) doesn't clean up or initialize something properly. You should wait for other advice, as I'm really

problem to boot the harddisk from CD ROM/floopy disk
Start from scratch, write zeros to the boot sector first, then fdisk. Use only fdisk to set up a drive, anything else you can expect problems later when the drive Will try you guys' advice though about using the zap utility....should I use the /mbr switch with the fdsik and format command though afterwards,

Format Hard Drive
If data must be removed from the drive, here are two utilities available from the Hard Disk Drive Technical Support Center Web site at: www.ibm.com/harddrive ZAP Zap is a utility that will overwrite the first 128 sectors of your hard drive with zeros. WIPE Wipe will write zeros to every sector on your hard drive up

5040 Hard Drive upgrade question
Greg M wrote: See if the manufacturer offers a "zero-write" program on their site. Then install the hdd as the only drive, just so you can't make any mistakes. (confidential work stuff, inevitable "adult" material etc) Do I re format the HDD, then reload windows 98? If so, is it a simple process? Advice please.

computer problem.. need help (RE)
With this particular hard drive, it gave an error message. #2- copied a small utility wipeout to W98 boot disk, it would write zeros. another hard drive formatted with DOS 6.22, works OK with this computer, not clear how to use this to load files, then switch hard drives, then not see C, or A. Advice? ms ms.

Cloncking HDD
Bob Watson rhwat...@log.on.ca comp os ms-windows win95 misc Erik G. Sten wrote: 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

Format Hard Drive
I plan to write zeros with Zap to both disks prior to fdisk. I then intend to install W2K Pro and SP2 on Disk 0, Drive C:. Then I will ghost to Disk 1, Primary Dos Partition, I will then write backups to CD twice weekly, and store them. Can you pros give me any advice or changes before I begin this endeavor.

Scandisk and DISK BOOT FAILURE
This is probably obsolete advice, No probably about it, completely obsolete. unnecessary with today's modern drives, but the logic from the old days still seems Writing zeros thru the drive wont change that. But low-level formatting Not even possible with a modern hard drive. certainly should retire bad sectors

Win98 memory
Further to advice from another contributor, I ran Western Digital's DLDIAG program and that says there are unrecoverable bad sectors (Code 0257). I don't feel very comfortable about returning a drive that contains confidential client material. Maybe I can write zeros to the drive before I demount it.

Is this a virus? Nasty enough to be...
If clearhdd cant even see the drive, try Norton's diskedit on that dos floppy. It isnt hard to use that in physical mode and write zeros thru the first My only advice is try going for another drive that is more reliable. I've had 3 Maxtors fail on me so far. "Tom" <thc...@earthlink.net> wrote in message

please help- 2nd post
I actually meant I ran the 'write zeros to drive' procedure, sorry for the confusion. (I know there are, of course, certain areas of a drive you're never allowed to write to no matter what: timing codes, etc...) An update: I followed Chris Hill's advice and called WD tech support. To my surprise, they gave me an

Does not delete extended DOS partition.
Also, was Tritium's advice followed by wiping out the original partition(s) and then re-partitioning using Win98's fdisk? You might try running fdisk /mbr on the drive, just in case the master boot record has some problem. Otherwise there are programs that write zeros to the entire drive.

HDD Mystery
... half the blocks processed, I conceded defeat. <g> If the drive fails again and I lack access to a PC, I'll keep your advice in mind. Thanks again. Thus the best way to force the drive to reallocate bad blocks is to initialize using the write zeros feature. Use Test Disk to verify surface integrity only.

5040 Hard Drive upgrade question
If the drive does not fail, then the Write Zeros option may be need to remove all software from the drive. Unfortunately, in that case all the data is lost. Thanks for any advice, Dave begin 666 trnsp.gif M1TE&.#EA`0`!`)'_`/___P```/___P```"'_"T%$3T)%.DE2,2XP`M[M`"'Y 6! $```(`+ `````!``$```("5 $`.P`` ` end.

Can I uninstall the "C" drive driver?
Zap can be downloaded from IBM and will write zeros to the first 128 sectors. http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rt=0&rs=0&org=hdd&doc=FAED3E08F 22CE474862569FF00787C27 You seem to be having a LBA translation problem. If you change the drive connections to different controllers, it is possible to have

Low Level Formatting -- Yes or No?
AX 0000 : 0301 Write on sector. - RBX Replace BX register. BX 0000 : 0200 Start from ES:200. - F 200 L 200 0 We want to write zeros. "vssvnvg" <vssv...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1c6501c388e0$1d549480$a301280a@phx.gbl... Thanks to Micheal Stevens for the advice on sound card. It worked.

Dead HDD?
I've tried zapping p-ram, rebuilding desktop, updating firmware to 4.2.8, I've tried re-formatting the drive (write zeros) and re-installing systems 9.1, 9.2.1, At this point, I'm thinking it's gotta be hardware, possibly the power supply? Has anyone heard of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

HD Partition to small???
If reformatting doesn't solve your problem, you can use the manufacturer's disk tools to write zeros to the entire HDD. If that doesn't fix your drive (allow it to be reformatted, reinstalled, etc.), then you probably have a bad drive (assuming other hard drives work fine in your system). Hard drives don't seem to

problem to boot the harddisk from CD ROM/floopy disk
Thanks for the suggestions, any further advice will be duly appreciated. Joel Charles Hammond <ceh4...@charter.net> wrote in message news:<Pine. You should go to the Hitachi Site and get the drive utility to write Zeros to the entire drive. This will allow you to get rid of the overlay program.