This result seems decidedly odd - have you tried booting with a W98 boot
disk then running FDisk from a separate floppy?
I wouldn't have thought it would matter what you've done to the drive
previously, unless you'd damaged it to the extent that the W98 boot disk
wouldn't work.
If the above is true, there is something else that might help - mail me
direct if you need to.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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> On Friday 20 September 2002 03:20 am, Kevin Neal wrote:
> > I need to know if there is any way of completely wiping a hard-drive,
> > ie: returning it to ones and zeros, or binarys, or whatever.
> > How do I really wipe the laptop HDD?
> >
> > I look forward to your advice, thoughts or experiences.
> >
> > Kevin,
> > New Zealand.

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