I had a similar situation before, a coustomer formatted a 4G HDD but didn't
use "large Harddisk support", what happened was the drive couldn't be fdisk
again as master, I had to use another HDD as master, the customer HDD as slave
to delete the faulty partition.

J Qian

Bruce Boschek wrote:

> After a boot-virus infection and
> removal with Sophos Sweep, the drive is no longer recognized by the bios
> (auto detect does not work and if I manually put in drive parameters the
> bios reports HD failure), BUT the drive works fine as a slave.

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