Reformatting Hard Drive

[balamm]

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain

[deathman102]

in win 98 you want to boot into dos and type in these comands to kill a disk


c:\format c: /s

do the on screen instructions and it wipes the lot. remembe you have to put the system swithc s in (/s) otherwise c: wont have a master boot record for the bios to detect

[balamm]

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Balamm-Ok that's very odd. How many drives do you have and did you have any drive manufacturer stuff installed on the disk?

I have 2 drives and i'm not shure about the drive manufacturer stuff.

Balamm- You started the PC from a win98 startup floppy and then ran Killdisk from floppy with the Killdisk.exe command?

Yup! win me boot disk and ran killdisk from floppy.

Ballam- Killdisk should wipe even easy bios and lilo, grub, etc. How long did it run and what was the disk size?

Yes it ran for about 10 to 15 but the drive is only a 4 gig Maxtor HD.
My other drive is 20.

Balamm - On multiple drives make sure you only have one connected as a single master and remove the cable from the rest. Do them one at a time to be sure the right one is wiped.

I think you've nailed it!
I've done this before but did'nt think of it.
The 4 gig hd is the master.

Balamm - There's another trick you can use to "break" protection on a stubborn drive. Just do two 10% passes with killdisk and then do a full wipe again. (you just reboot with the startup disk again to run another pass)

Hehe
This sounds good too I think i'll try this first.

Balamm - If you really want to confirm it's clean, type- kick me to fosi - into google and look for pirates cove. there's three active fosi links there. He has easy recovery pro 6(?) on all of them. Make the dos floppys and run them before you install to make sure it's all gone.

Hey...I have easy recovery professional edition and the floppys are made.
Is 6 newer?
Thanks again
Btw I don't have a copy of my bios on floppy.
It's old and there is'nt a new one for this system.
Do you know how I can copy it to floppy?
Is it possible?
Thanks for the powermax tip!
I had no idea.

[balamm]

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain

[balamm]

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain

[ijc_2003]

its funny how the format tool of the powermax tool took 4 and half hours to format a 60gb hd drive the ibm 1 took about 1 hour. So i take it the powermax tool is cleaning the hard drive to a full and if you dont belive me then try bringing it back with norton super ultilitys disk recover software, it wont bring anything back because i've tryed it (doh). nothing more to say!!.

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

This is an old comuter.
Don't Laugh!
It's all I got right now.
Here's the info?

< System Mainboard >
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
MP Support: No
Model: JN440BX
Version: AA729057-407
Serial Number:


< System Chipset >
Model: Intel Corporation 82443BX/ZX 440BX/ZX CPU to PCI
Bridge (AGP Implemented)
Bus(es): ISA X-Bus AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c
Front Side Bus Speed: 1x 99MHz (99MHz data rate)
In Order Queue Depth: 4 req(s)

< Logical/Chipset Memory Banks >
Bank 0 Setting: 64MB SDRAM 7-1-1-1R 5-1-1-1W 2-2-2CL
Speed: 1x 99MHz (99MHz data rate)
Multiplier: 1/1x
Refresh Rate: 15.60µs
Power Down Mode: Yes
Fixed Hole Present: No

From SANDRA 2002

[balamm]

Duties are not performed for duty&#39;s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain

[fallenknight308]

Here&#39;s how I format mine: Insert boot/restore disk, bring up dos, type: "gwscan", select "write zeros to drive", restart when done, back to dos again type: "fdisk", create a new partition, restart, dos, type: format <space> c:
Take out boot disk, insert image restoration disk (your OS). Restart.
*whew* B)