--- krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hello everbody, > > > > Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my > flaky > > Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. > > Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of > > sparing one partition or the other -- it does the > > whole thing. > > > > I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first > half > > of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there > a > > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive > while > > leaving the rest intact? > If you have the drive partitioned you can > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdaX > > Where hdaX is the partition to zero out. This should > be equivalent to a low level format. Done, but problem remains: the start of the drive seems un-writable for some reason. It won't even let me install Win98!, get run-time error R6003 integer divide by 0sk setup found errors on your hard disk I told the tech at Maxtor that it could boot linux from another drive and *couldn't* boot MS products at all. He says, if the drive has errors then nothing will work. Entire drive must be zeroed. Would a true test involve zeroing the whole thing? I don't see why if the file systems were always intact even when XP-pro was installed(though not booting) on the first half of this 120G HDrive. I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive that comes before the first partition, like those first few grooves on a vinyl record ;-) > > PS: > Have you tried running badblocks on it? none found > > -- > Regards > Karol Krzak > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
