Strange Item on HD

[Johann Biersack]

Hi,

I have a PII system with a 4.3 GB Maxtor HD that I will give away to
charity. When I formated the HD and reinstalled the original Win 95 I used
Maxtor's Maxblast3. The Program showed besides the Primay DOS partition
three other entries with "0". Then I installed a Partition Manager from
Paragon which shows a primary FAT32 partition with 4GB and another primay
partition. The name is *, under data system it says "Free" and the size is
2044GB! No other entries. I tried to get rid of it with the Partition
Manager, with DOS-fdisk with LINUX-fdisk, because I tried LINUX on the
machine, but it did not work, so I thought there would be a remainder from
LINUX. I wrote a new MBR with Maxblast3.

Any thoughts, how I can delete this thing.

Johann

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a PII system with a 4.3 GB Maxtor HD that I will give away to
charity. When I formated the HD and reinstalled the original Win 95 I used
Maxtor's Maxblast3. The Program showed besides the Primay DOS partition
three other entries with "0". Then I installed a Partition Manager from
Paragon which shows a primary FAT32 partition with 4GB and another primay
partition. The name is *, under data system it says "Free" and the size is
2044GB! No other entries. I tried to get rid of it with the Partition
Manager, with DOS-fdisk with LINUX-fdisk, because I tried LINUX on the
machine, but it did not work, so I thought there would be a remainder from
LINUX. I wrote a new MBR with Maxblast3.

Any thoughts, how I can delete this thing.

Just run clearhdd from
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/clearhdd.htm
on the drive. That will wipe it.

 

[Johann Biersack]

Just run clearhdd from
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/clearhdd.htm
on the drive. That will wipe it.

Thank you for the hint. But it did not help.

Johann

 

[Rod Speed]

Thank you for the hint. But it did not help.

Its got to help. Exactly what happens after you used it ?

It should have wiped all partitions from the drive.
If it didnt, you cant have used it properly.

 

[Johann Biersack]

Its got to help. Exactly what happens after you used it ?

It should have wiped all partitions from the drive.
If it didnt, you cant have used it properly.

I downloaded the program from the Samsung website made a copy to the
bootdisk booted the computer with the bootdisk and ran the program with
"clearhdd 0" on the A:> prompt. After the program started and issued a
warning I conformed that I want to proceed. Then the program was working.
After that I again installed Win95 with the recovery disk and CD. I also
installed the boot manager. The boot manager has the same two entries like
before. The strange thing now is that the boot manager shows the primary Win
partition in a dark green colour which means "free". Before it showed this
partition in a light green which means FAT32. And again Maxblast3 shows 4
partitions. One: Type: B Bootable: true Begin CHS: 0 1 1 End CHS: 523 254 63
Size: 4.31GB and three nonbootable with "0" entries in all other fields. For
this HD in Maxtor's specs CHS is 525 255 63.

Again thank you for your help

Johann

 

[Rod Speed]

I downloaded the program from the Samsung website made a copy to the
bootdisk booted the computer with the bootdisk and ran the program with
"clearhdd 0" on the A:> prompt. After the program started and issued a
warning I conformed that I want to proceed. Then the program was working.

That certainly wiped the hard drive.

After that I again installed Win95 with the recovery disk and CD.
I also installed the boot manager.

Why bother if you just want Win95 on it ?

The boot manager has the same two entries like before.

Presumably its what is molesting the partition table.

Thats normal, boot managers do that sort of thing.

The strange thing now is that the boot manager shows the primary Win
partition in a dark green colour which means "free". Before it showed this
partition in a light green which means FAT32. And again Maxblast3 shows 4
partitions. One: Type: B Bootable: true Begin CHS: 0 1 1 End CHS: 523 254 63
Size: 4.31GB and three nonbootable with "0" entries in all other fields. For
this HD in Maxtor's specs CHS is 525 255 63.

So do you really need the boot manager at all ?

 

[Johann Biersack]

working.

That certainly wiped the hard drive.


Why bother if you just want Win95 on it ?


Presumably its what is molesting the partition table.

Thats normal, boot managers do that sort of thing.

You are certainly right. A boot manager would not make sense in this case
and I did not install it. I confused it with the partition manger. So the
partition manager showed the things described. The system works fine. If I
do not have to warrie that this strange item could cause problems I would
leave it as it is.

Thank's

Johann

 

[Rod Speed]

You are certainly right. A boot manager would not make sense in this case
and I did not install it. I confused it with the partition manger. So the
partition manager showed the things described. The system works fine. If I
do not have to warrie that this strange item could cause problems I would
leave it as it is.

I dont personally use MaxBlast at all, because it does weird stuff like that.