Do you have a floppy drive? If you do then make a dos bootable floppy. Find wipe on the web and download it. Run wipe to clean the drive of everything. Your floppy should also have fdisk & format on it. After wipe is finished type fdisk/mbr. This should give you a fresh MBR. Then use fdisk to install a fat32 partition. Next format C:. Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without being activated. You can also buy a cf to ide adapter on Amazon.com and run a CF chip on your ide port. Another good dos program is IDECHECK. It will read out all your registers and test the drive for speed.
cheers DS On Thu, 15 May 2014 21:57:11 +0800 kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com> writes: > Have an old 80 gig hard drive with an HPA(host protected access) > partition, > which is wasting space; tried to use linux function 'hdparm' > on it using an ide/usb adapter, but recieved message "bad or missing > sense > data", exactly what I get with flash drives and sd cards. > Threw the drive in an old ide machine to hit it with hdparm, but > the > machine is non-functional. My other machine is sata only. > Any ideas to do this? ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Do THIS before eating carbs (every time) 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar & decrease fat storage http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5374dab4616645ab4612est02duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
