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Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried bootdisk.com and some programs that write directly to the MBR. I tried fips and Norton anti virus etc. The bios cannot autodetect the drive, and even if I enter the drive parameters it still does not recognize the drive. I think the drive is FUBAR. The bios does autodetect other drives with no problem. I will have to trash can the drive. Thanks again to everyone. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:43 PM Subject: From The Screwdriver List: Re: How to repair MBR > Grab your Phillips, it's... > The Latest from The Screwdriver List! > > > fdisk /mbr > > This will fix the mbr and then it would be wise to delete the partition and > re-create it, just to make sure the disk is clean. A good site for you to > peruse would be www.bootdisk.com. There are several utilities there that > might be of assistance to you. Scroll down to the Harddrives section and > beyond. There are some partition deleting utilities that may help. > > Good Luck > > Cats > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Turba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:27 PM > Subject: From The Screwdriver List: How to repair MBR > > > > Grab your Phillips, it's... > > The Latest from The Screwdriver List! > > > > > > 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" > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > That's all for now from The Screwdriver List > "Red Stripe to Pin 1" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now from The Screwdriver List "Red Stripe to Pin 1" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
