On Friday 06 December 2002 14:34, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Doin a low level format can often cause more problems. All HDD's > have some unusable areas on the platters that are mapped out at the > factory. A low level format will lose this factory info. > > It most likely is a HDD fixin to fail, so get what you just have to > have off of it while/if you can. Then go to the link above and d/l > Fujitsu's diagnostic. There's one for IDE and for scuzzy. You'll need > to add either to a DOS boot disk to use 'em. If you don't have one, > try bootdisk.com (or I've got a dos6boot.tgz (260k) that already has > some sys diagnostic tools on it. I could email it you. Contact me > offlist). If you've got the floppy that came with the drive, the > utilities are most likely on it. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > >
Got a bootdisk, thanks (Now I remember last time I tried to boot the windows partition on this disk, it said it couldn't find himem.sys - I could boot to dos and see it myself). Think I'll low level format it to see what happens, but if it doesn't work, just bin it. Thanks anyway. Richard
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