hard drive trouble

[bakerb]

This is kind of odd, i think. I recently pulled my old P90 out of mothball. I went to turn him on and I got a checksum error (he cmos battery went dead, ok whatever). I spent the next day trying to figure out what the specs on my seagate 1.2 gb hard drive were. After a while, it finally auto-detected (cause for rejoice). However, now it doesn't seem to want to recognize the drive. I tried all kinds of stuff, i shoved in an m$-dos bootdisk and tried to get to c: . . . no luck, I played with LOAF, no luck there either. I can't boot off the drive either. I get a message that the drive was found, but the cursor just sits there and blinks at me. any ideas?

-bakerb

[ssadams]

maybe needs a good dose of fdisk and a format

[FoBoT]

nuke it with ranish partition manager, it has an erase function that will write zero's to the partitions to clear it

Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/)

[b33rniverous]

You could try Seagate tech support and download their bootable floppy diagnostic utilities.

[n2linux]

I had an old, Conner 1.2 GB drive that about died about a month after installing RH6.2 and later, Win 2000. Don't know why it went bad...BIOS finds it, but FDISKing from a boot disk doesn't work.

My reasoning is bad sectors...these old HDs lack SMART or self-diagnostic capabilities, thus, in my case at least, it cannot remap any bad sectors.

Good luck though ;)