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I picked up a used hard drive and am having trouble getting it installed. Is there a way to repair the MBR or should I trash it? It is only a 4.3 GB drive and I am sure that my mobo and bios can handle it. Bios is Ali Aladdin V, the mobo has AGP port and 2 usb ports and UDMA 33. When I go to bios to auto detect it only detects the correct parameters 1 in 25 attempts. I have the cylinders and heads and sectors info from the case of the drive. When the drive is detected and I boot to dos and run fdisk it sees a non dos partition. I delete the non dos partition but fdisk cannot create a new dos partition. After that it cannot even detect the drive. If I check again the non dos partition is still present.. I have a program from Seagate, the drives mfr., to install drives, it will get to the final step of creating a new partition and say there is a serious problem with the MBR and cannot continue error 8001H. I have another utility MBRtool. It reads the MBR and allows me to edit it but I do not know how. It has a switch to write a wintel MBR to the drive and to completely wipe the mbr but every time I try it, it says it cannot read the mbr. I have tried norton rescue disk but it cannot detect the drive. Where do I go from here? TIA Jerry Turba ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now from The Screwdriver List "Red Stripe to Pin 1" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
