Actually, that might have worked.  I have also been told of a utility call
"gdisk", similar to fdisk, except that executing the program will,
guaranteed, wipe your hard drive immediately.  I guess I'm a little wary of
doing that when I know the original program will uninstall itself.  I would
always have that nagging doubt about whether another utility actually did
everything to kill it, or left some nasty tidbits around to come back and
bite me down the road.  Heavy sigh!!!

Kyle


>From: Russell Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] How to remove Ontrack
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:00:40 -0500
>
>Kyle Elmblade wrote:
> >  I have a Maxtor 4.3GB HD that had an overlay on it, and I did
>everything short of a
> > low-level format to try and get rid of it.  Nothing worked until I
>obtained
> > a copy of the ACTUAL VERSION of this particular overlay program and
>removed
> > it using the programs remove utility.  IMHO, that is the safest way to
>make
> > sure the overlay is completely gone.
>
>
>   I wonder if you had used the NT utility DELPART.EXE if you could have
>killed it? I use it for troublesome
>NTFS partitions (especially if someone has dual-boot installed NT and
>Win9X).


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