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HDD volume label = smiley face?
Name: jam Date: December 1, 2003 at 05:53:29 Pacific OS: n/a CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
I was cleaning up my shop & going thru some old "junk" that I have laying around. I pulled out an old Quantum Bigfoot 2.5gb HDD (5 1/4") that I had marked "bad?" I had a board on my bench that I'd been testing, so I hooked up the Bigfoot to see what would happen. It was correctly recognized in the BIOS but it wouldn't boot. I popped in a Win98 start disk, booted & ran FDISK, then selected option 4 (display info). The volume label had a bunch of odd characters, one of them being a smiley face! I assume this is some sort of virus? I couldn't delete the partition because it asks to enter the volume label to confirm deletion & how do I key in a smiley face? LOL! Any suggestions?
Name: jam Date: December 1, 2003 at 06:26:12 Pacific
Reply:
x86,
Any idea if will work with my HDD or is it designed to work with Samsung drives only? I'll download the file & give it a shot when I get home anyway...I've got nothing to lose...the drive is worthless as it is!
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: jim Date: December 1, 2003 at 11:43:05 Pacific
Reply:
Most gard drive manufacturers have an equivalent program, that will write zeros to every sector on the drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: December 1, 2003 at 12:43:54 Pacific
Reply:
I did some searching & apparently Maxtor's software is compatible with Quantum hard drives...so if what x86 suggested doesn't work, I'll give PowerMax a shot...
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