Hi Sam
On Monday 06 February 2006 20:11, Sam Franc wrote:
> What is the best way to get rid of the disk overlay?
> I won't give the long story but the HD I cloned in my grandson's
> computer got locked up in DOS when I ran Partition Magic.
> It would not release no matter what.
> A clean reboot took it back to running in DOS.
> The only thing that worked was to use Seagate Tools and format.
> Now before I reinstall everything I want to be back to plain vanilla.
> Get rid of the overlay tool.
>
> Will FDISK /MBR do that?
Yes, it should.
> Should you run FDISK /MBR on a new HD anyway?
No.
> Do I have to go back to the plain FDISK?
You will have to prep the disk is some way.
> Will a reformat do it?
No.
>
> Live and I hope learn.
> Sam
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