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.
>

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