Formatting A HDD

[Guest]

Can anyone help please.

I have a 250Gig HDD running with windows XP SP2.

This HDD has previously been used as a primary device, and had a copy of the
MBR written to it. I have triied using FDISK /MBR and also creating a
partition over the entire disk and formatting it, but i cannot seem to remove
the MBR.

Can anyone help?

 

[Alias]

Can anyone help please.

I have a 250Gig HDD running with windows XP SP2.

This HDD has previously been used as a primary device, and had a copy of
the
MBR written to it. I have triied using FDISK /MBR and also creating a
partition over the entire disk and formatting it, but i cannot seem to
remove
the MBR.

Can anyone help?

Download a copy of the floppy (ies) utility from the HD manufacturer's web
site and use that. Do the full format that will take hours. You can also use
the floppy (ies) for other things such as partitioning.

Alias

 

[Guest]

Can anyone help please.

I have a 250Gig HDD running with windows XP SP2.

This HDD has previously been used as a primary device, and had a copy of the
MBR written to it. I have triied using FDISK /MBR and also creating a
partition over the entire disk and formatting it, but i cannot seem to remove
the MBR.

Fdisk / MBR won't remove MBR - instead, it will *repair* a broken MBR.
Anyway you want an MBR on a disk, or it will be unusable.

--PA

 

[Guest]

I need to remove it, or the contents of it so that it is totally clean
because it is conflicting with a piece of software i am using to partition my
drive.

 

[Keith]

I need to remove it, or the contents of it so that it is totally clean
because it is conflicting with a piece of software i am using to
partition my drive.

Drivel!

 

[Richard Urban]

The drive in question MUST be connected as the primary master (and the only
drive connected to the computer for safety) for fdisk /mbr to touch it.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

I thought Fdisk was a Win 98 utility. Does it work with XP? Shouldn't you be
using fixmbr or fixboot?

 

[Richard Urban]

The mbr cares NOT what operating system is installed on the drive! All it
does is get the computer started and then it passes off control to the
operating system to complete the boot. If the mbr is corrupted or altered it
has no knowledge where to throw the ball for the pass receiver to catch it.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

Sorry! A clarification. It is the bios that gives the computer the kick
start. The mbr tells the bios where to throw the ball to.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

I guess my hidden question is: "Why is he using Fdisk, if this is a Win XP
computer?".

 

[Richard Urban]

Because he has it, and it will work?

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!