Hard Drive

[Kunal]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@16 November 2003 - 20:00
Download Powermax from their site.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

to the master of hardware world, follow his instructions, there usually right

[Tormentor]

ok i downloaded powermax and put it on a floppy and put it in my other computer and it ran it then i came up with these legal terma and stuf and told me to press F8 then i came up with how to handle my computer like taking it apart then it said to press F8 to run the program the it went to that black screen with the :> or whatever where i type stuff. what do i do next?

[Kunal]

clarify your english please, because i dunno what your saying!

[Tormentor]

Ok sorry about that im panicing. Ok I downloaded powermax and put it on a floppy and put it in my other computer. It ran the program fine and cam up with this blue window that said all the legal terms. I pressed F8 to continue. Another blue window came up and it told me how to ground myself before installing any knew hardware. I pressed F8 to continue again. After that it came up with that command prompt screen were it had the :> (or whatever it looks like) were I type stuff. Thats it I dont know were to go from there.

[Kunal]

Powermax user guide read that it should tell you what to do

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at that screen do a:
then dir
then look for the program (it will be there ?????.exe or ?????.com)
then type the name of the program to run it

did u try to fdisk /mbr yet ?

[Tormentor]

ok i tried that and it wasnt working but I just realized that im on my other comp that dosnt have acrobat

[Tormentor]

i tried that fdisk /mbr thing and all it did was do somthing with the floppy but nothing showed up on the screen. What does it do?

[Kunal]

Originally posted by andrewlamb098@16 November 2003 - 20:44
i tried that fdisk /mbr thing and all it did was do somthing with the floppy but nothing showed up on the screen. What does it do?

check for errors on your hdd

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it rewright the master boot record an fixes it if its bad and it only take a sec or to do the flopy access was just ur comp get fdisk and loading it it will only say something if it dont work so u probly ran it fine see if u can partishion it now
if u can then do a format c /s and see if it will boot to dos on the hd take out the floppy if it works ur good to go and can reinstall windows

btw have u ever put linux on that hd if so ull have to use linux to remove the linux partishion on it f disk wont reconize it