Fdisk should work. However, I've seen situations that Fdisk won't load.
There is a way to fix, go to IBM website, download a 10K program called
"Wipe", unzip it to a Boot disk, then use that disk to boot the computer,
run "Wipe", it will wipe anything on any harddisk if it is no bigger than
8G. Also Quantum has a program called "Zero fill" which basicaly does the
same thing but it only works with Quantum disks.

J Qian

Elizabeth Boston wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> A customer recently brought me a computer that wouldn't boot. He
> had replaced the motherboard, and was not able to get it to work
> since.
>         This is the message I get on booting up the machine...
>
> "Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay...
> Press spacebar to boot from diskette...
> ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected.
> Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information.
> Insert boot diskette, in drive A:, press any key when ready...
>         Booting from diskette
>         Starting Windows 95
> The compression driver cannot be set up correctly. Get a version
> from your vendor that is compatible with this version of Windows"
>
>         My question is, can I fdisk and format this disk to remove the
> drive overlay? If not, how can I get rid of it?

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