[H] Bad Partition

[Winterlight]

I have a hard drive SATA1 300GB Maxtor, worked fine. I put it in one 
of my machines and booted into windows, moved off all the data and 
then did a format NTFS. Then I decided to use it in another machine 
as the boot drive. I didn't have any partitioning software on this XP 
machine so I booted off my old Partition Magic 8 floppies. For some 
reason PM8 DOS reported a partition error on the Maxtor when it 
started up,.. something about 1024 end point, and asked to fix it... 
I foolishly said OK and it reported all fixed. But when it finished 
loading I discovered it had a bad partition no doubt caused by PM8s 
fixing it. PM8 couldn't delete the partition ... it just showed the 
bad partition.

I thought OK I will use DiskWipe in DOS to wipe it clean. But disk 
wipe wouldn't load with that DISK hooked up. Nor would a boot floppy, 
or windows.Only the PM8 DOS floppies will boot and load.  I took the 
drive out, put it on a motherboard with nothing but a cpu, ram, video 
and a floppy and tried to boot... no can do.

There is no data on the drive and it isn't worth much  but if I could 
wipe the drive I could restore it. I can't fix it if I can't boot 
while it is installed. Have I missed something ... is there a way to 
fix this? Or is it time to take it apart for the magnets.

thanks