The maxtor utility That you are refering to gets the frive back to it
origional form all 0's on the drive no partitions nothing. I have
forgotem the name of the other utility that does this.
Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Moore
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk


I've had the same problem.  Never could figure out why but the Maxtor
utilities from their web site handled it when nothing else would.  You
can also run the diagnostics available there to make sure the drive is
good. Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Fortescue" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:45 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk


> I have a computer running XP/WinME, 256M, 366MgHz....
>
> I have a second HD that has been broken up into 4 partitions.  I am
> unable to format the drive (wipe everything off and start over) using
> Partition Magic, Windows Format from the explorer, and fdisk/format
> from DOS.
>
> With fdisk, I can select the drive I want.  But, from there I don't
> really know what to do.  The drive is very corrupt...2 partitions
> register just garbage and the other 2 partitions have never been
> accessible...I just
want
> to clean everything off of the 20G maxtor drive.
>
> I think this is enough info...but please let me know if there is a way

> to
do
> this with this corrupt drive.
>

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
                   http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
                   http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml