Summary: You do not say which make, size or make of hard drive you wish to repair? However beware of LOW LEVEL FORMAT Utilities, unless they are by the correct...
Summary: Claude and Ronin, thank you for your suggestions. I do want to exhaust all my options before reformatting my hard drive. Can someone give me the exac...
Summary: Hi, I had a really old computer which I previously had windows 98 installed. Then I mistakenly erased alot of files and basically windows couldn't eve...
Summary: I'm looking to reformat my hard drive. I used to have step by step but lost them and i cannot find any help online (google, microsoft, dell, ect..) I ...
Summary: Sounds to me like you may ahve a real problem.... If you didnt back up your files your OUT...If you have the operating system (i.e. windows, os/2, uni...
Summary: I am trying to resurect my mates computer. windows directory got corrupted scan disk restored it to dir00001 etc. It contains emails and docs that ar...
Summary: M$ DOS, or equivalent M$ OSes, fail to recognize LINUX partitions. You said you ran FISK. Did you delete all Primary, logical, extended, AND Non-DOS p...
Summary: I have an old IBM ps/2 computer. An 80286 10 mhz with a 30m hard drive. I am thinking of putting a bigger hard drive in. It has the original one in it...
Summary: ST 506 is a Seagate model number. Find out what kind of hard drive it is from them. It is quite possible that it is an IDE drive in which case a...
Summary: Ok, as stated before, XT computers did not have CMOS/BIOS setup. The parameters were changed by setting actual switches. At any rate, (afaik) you cou...
Summary: forget partitioning, i want to completely erase my hard drive, i mean everything, as though i just bought it from the store...i have linux and windows...
Summary: I know it is possible, I have seen it before on Linux running on a 386, where it lists the make and model of the hard drive. I'm woundering, if ther...
Summary: If you have Windows 98, you may be able to boot your system from the CD itself - select boot from CD rom. If the computer does not have a bootable cd ...
Summary: Open the case and find out the manufacturer of the hard drive. Go get a low level format utility from whomever makes it (if it's a Maxtor for example...
Summary: Nah Hard Drives are the most common thing to break down. Their could be tons of things that mite of messed it up. It could of been droped or someone j...
Summary: Formatting a hard drive wipes it completely, losing all information. Is this what you really want? If no, I would first create a dos boot floppy and u...
Summary: Well I am just about to get down and dirty with these two hard drives. I have a few questions: I discovered that my smaller hard drive has DOS 4.1 and...
Summary: Thank you for your reply. Sorry for being so vague. It's DOS 6.22. It's on a floppy. I am using the same bootdisk when I receive the error message as ...
Summary: I think my explanation of my problem is not clear enough. but it is a very long story and now I will try to make it as short and simple as possible. I...
Summary: Hi there, Several months ago my 40 GB Quantum AT Fireball Plus AS died. What happened was I had put a regular IDE cable on it rather than one of thos...
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