Thanks for the advice for delpart.exe, Zap, and Wipe....I ended up trying
delpart.exe...It did seem to work, but I still have garbage on the drive.  I
will try the maxtor disk utilities.  If nothing works, I'll trying driving
my car over it!

Thanks again

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Lindstrom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:23 PM
To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
Cc: Marshall Fortescue
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk


At 08:45 AM 6/19/2002 -0400, Marshall Fortescue wrote:
>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.
(ETC)

There is a DOS utility called "delpart.exe" that I believe originally came
from one of the early NT4.0 versions. I have used it a few times on
partitions that nothing else would touch, and it killed them every time.

It is available for free download here:

http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm

HTH-

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