Go to http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discfile.shtml and download
Seagate Format v4 and low level format the drive.

HTH

Jose


D. Cale wrote:

> A friend just gave me an older Seagate 1.6 gig HD he had been using.
> He said it worked fine..I wanted to get rid of everything on it and install
> Win98 and use it in a second computer that I am kinda trying to assemble.
> I have no real idea as to how to get rid of it's contents..I tried Fdisk,
> but think
> that I used the wrong switch or something..now it wont boot at all and says
> that the operating system is missing..So I tried to install MSDOS on it from
> the original disks that I have, and it wants to format the drive(which I
> want),
> but it seems to hang at 76% finished...cant seem to get past that...Does
> anyone
> have any suggestions or ideas? I would be very thankful..

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