Hi Steve,
On Monday 09 October 2006 19:05, steven Inscribed Thus:
> The drive is a Maxtor. Maxtor powermax and or maxblast 4 do not work
> on the drive. They return similar error messages that I previously
> outlined. Steve
Fine ! If you are sure that the drive is jumpered correctly, then the
drive is faulty ! A confirmation of this would be to stick the drive
into another machine and re-run the Maxtor tools !
A caveat here, I don't recall your previous posts ! So this is based
solely on the information given in the post that I replied to !
> >Hi Steven,
> >
> >On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:38, steven Inscribed Thus:
> > > >I downloaded gwscan to a working computer and installed the
> > > > program as per prompt to a floppy disk. Tried booting with it
> > > > on problem computer, and all I get is remove and replace with
> > > > bootable media.
> > >
> > > Can you recommend any other program which works with a Dell and
> > > will reformat the harddrive in question.
> > > Steve
> >
> >If you can determine the manufacturer of the drive, you would be
> > better off using the manufacturers utilities and tools. Most, if
> > not all these bypass the BIOS and talk directly to the drive.
> >
> >Some, not all, require that you use a bootable floppy disk.
> >
> >However the BIOS has to be able to see the drive if you want to use
> > the normal "Fdisk and Format" tools.
> >
> >The fact that its a Dell shouldn't make any difference to the tools
> > that you use ! However if your machine uses a hidden partition and
> > it gets damaged or removed, you probably will have to use the Dell
> > tools to restore it !
> >
> >HTH
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Derrick.
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