1. Just a clumsy expression of a reason why we might have an old 60GB disk
we want to make a different use of.
2. Yes; trying to erase an internal hard disk, moved from HD0 to HD1 on the
IDE cable.
3. HD is the Maxtor 96147H6. "Manufacturer" now in the Seagate family. I
went to the Seagate site, and what I was able to find was a reference and
redirection to an MS KB about how to use Disk Management, which I already
knew failed to reformat the logical G: partition.
4. If you know how to navigate on the Seagate website to download a
low-level formatting program, that would be useful information. The program
that they do offer as a free download, DiskWizard, does not do it in my
situation, as far as I could determine. To repeat, if you know how to get
their low-level formatiing program, that could possibly be useful in the
future, so let me know.
5. With some help from another source, I was informed the existence of CLJ;
Capacity Limiting Jumper. The JPG diagram I downloaded from Seagate, of
jumper settings, did not name or otherwise identify the settings for the
Maxtor 96147H6. The Seagate JPG-format chart showed four groupings of
Seagate drives, with both consistencies and inconsistencies in jumper
positions for CLJ. I speculated that the existing jumper setting was in a
CLJ position. I changed it to what I presumed was a Cable Select position.
I then used Disk Management to reformat the old HD. It worked.
So the crux of the problem was a hardware matter, and could not have been
solved by any software utility.
"Leonard Grey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Whoa...what does your new 320GB hard disk have to do with some unexplained
> 60GB hard disk?
>
> Are you trying to erase an internal hard disk that you have installed in
> your computer? Go to the website of the disk manufacturer and download
> their free low-level formatting program.
>
> [And make sure you're erasing the correct disk. Don't laugh - bad things
> happen.]
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> We bought a new 320 GB internal drive and installed WinXP Pro on it. A
>> previous user of a 60 GB hard drive seems to have partitioned it into two
>> partitions of approx. 30 GB each. Drive letters are F and G. We
>> reformatted Logical drive F: NTFS without a problem. All attempts to
>> format G: fail. It is not possible to open G:. What we want to do is
>> reformat the entire 60GB physical drive, as a single partition.
>>
>> I have lost my notes on the navigation path to get to "Disk Management"
>> but when I got there, F: was identified as NTFS and "healthy" but G had
>> no File System type shown, although it was also called "healthy."
>>
>> Please remind me of how to navigate to the Disk Management utility.
>> Getting there will not enable me to format G, as my attempts have failed
>> completely, but I want to know for future maintenance.
>>
>> Please tell me how I can force the operating system to delete both
>> partitions and reformat the entire 60GB.
>>
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