I have sent you a program called Zap which writes zeros to the hard drive to
correct problem MBRs, overlays, etc.

Daniel Wysocki
Twin*.*Star Computers
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Carmichael <[log in to unmask]>
To: Twin*.*Star <[log in to unmask]>; PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware
discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Missing Logical Drives


>Daniel W:  the unit is a Dell P266; all of them came with 6.5GB drives, we
>never encountered any size limitiation problems (although I can't speak for
>everyones' personal life :-) ).  Also, ther first thing I tried was the MBR
>switch.
>
>Larry: K:  I haven't tried PM (had a very bad experience with an early
>version of it, and have since been gun-shy about using it).  I will be
going
>thru Dell's site later today to see if I can find the appropiate utility.
>
>Thanks for the response guys.
>
>
>
>
>
>>Sounds like you have a puter with a BIOS that has one of the maximum hard
>drive size limit less than the 6.5 G.
>>Does the BIOS recognize the size properly? What brand/model hard drive is
>it? Use the /mbr switch with Fdisk....
>
> >Daniel Wysocki
>
>
>> I've had similar problems in the past.  And when something  like
Partition
>Magic wouldn't take out such partitions, the appropriate
>> utility from the drives manufacture was able to completely clear the
>drive.
>
>>Larry Koester
>
>
>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ian C. <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>>I am in the process of upgrading some 30+ PCs and just encountered a Dell
>P266 running win98 and a 6.5GB HD. No virii detected.  Fdisk tells me that
>>>there are 2 partitions with logical drives assigned to extended
partition.
>However, when I try to view/delete these drives, fdisk then reports no
>>>logical drives defined.  Okay, so I try to delete the extended partition;
>but I can't because there are logical drives defined, so I try to
>view/delete these logical drives.......well I hope you get the picture.
>>
>>
>>

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