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Unable to reformat C: drive
Name: Roy Brown Date: April 19, 2001 at 14:27:55 Pacific
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The lbel name on the C: drive has become corrupted and it will not allow a reformat or label change, I have been told to take the drive out of the machine and Degauss it to delete all info on it. Is there any one out there that may have a less hazardous answer???????? NB label name comes up in ASCI charaters. When asked to format it comes up "Invalid device parameters from device driver or CDR 101 not ready
Name: Jolyhils Date: April 19, 2001 at 14:44:31 Pacific
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if it's just a normal hardrive, then take a dos boot disk with fdisk. Run fdisk and repartition the drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: mr o Date: April 20, 2001 at 01:30:56 Pacific
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who told you to degauss the harddrive?
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Response Number 3
Name: Jim Date: April 20, 2001 at 16:30:18 Pacific
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That's enough out of you !!! If he knew what to do he wouldn't have written to us. We're here to help, not ridicule him.
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Response Number 4
Name: fred6008 Date: April 20, 2001 at 20:18:22 Pacific
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Why so excited Anonononon? That is a great NEW idea. Another one is take a bulk tape eraser to the hard drive. How has the label on the hard drive become corrupt? Sometimes what I consider anti pirating features in windows will change a drive label to one large letter and one small one. Ai for example where you know you named the drive DATABASE. You can't relabel it because DOS will not type a small letter, BUT YOU CAN FORMAT in that situation. And when it offers you a chance to label it will install the new label. At least the version 6.2 format.com will do this. What you seem to be describing is a similar but more difficult corruption of the drive label. Will you post the solution when you find one?
After degaussing you should first low level format disk (formatter in bios, or public domain formatting software). Then use FDISK and (dos) format. If this fails, trash the drive.
Diagnose: "Invalid device parameters from device driver or CDR 101 not ready" probably refers to (screwed) CDrom drive.
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Response Number 6
Name: kernelgimp Date: April 30, 2001 at 09:59:03 Pacific
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Just thought I'd say that it wasn't Roy who suggested degaussing the drive, it was someone else. Why blame him, Anononon?
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