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Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 07:10:31 -0500 |
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Today, I had a similar problem... I found an old ide drive with several
configurations, from 41 Mb up to 163 Mb listed on the manufacturer's
label. It had a plain white label saying 120 Mb. It appears to have been
FDISKed to 163 Mb using SMARTDRV and DOS 6.20, as it appears as a non-DOS
partition in the lower DOSes that I had handy (3.20 & 5.0). It will not
take a DOS FORMAT - "media or track 0 bad". If I attempt to FDISK it
while set to the 122 Mb configuration, I can delete the Primary DOS
partition. It then shows 122 Mb, no partition set - but when I try to
set a primary partition, it crashes. Rebooting, and FDISKing again,
it once again shows a 163 Mb partition on a 122 Mb total disk space.
Any suggestions? Other than getting the manufacturer's low level
format utility?
Boyd Ramsay
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