better yet-get Samsung disk manger and fast zero first 63 or zero all, but to destroy the NTFS partition hat making you insane and telling fdisk to fdisk use...
it does not and many utilities claiming to write zeros do not especially if there is a hidden NTFS partition with recovery info like a drive murdered by HP....
... I own a Sandisk USB thumb drive, so I didn't think to consider that you may be using a Sandisk compact-flash module (with or without a PC-card adapter). ...
Please, beyond the FAQs and READMEs, might someone be able to direct me to a good, lean, mean (and illustrated?) users--or, quick reference, guide to using...
... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mosaddique/Partitioning%20with%20Ranish.html ... What are the " " in the tables? Typo? Other than disabling partition...
... that ... eight ... the ... into ... for ... other ... USB ... Have you tried cfdisk or a linux fdisk to set your active partitions? EBD, extended boot...
hi, i just want to know if anyone can help me to know how to program a disk manager ..... i'm a c and c++ programmer and i know little assembly and i'm asked ...
Many thanks to all of you who responded to my request (below) for a guide to using RPM. Please, let me strongly suggest the obvious: Why not add the most ...
... Doc Chiron here: Not sure, but I noticed it too. I'll guess that it is a "non-displayed backspace" that may have been inserted by whatever "editor" was...
hi, my PC cannot startup so i tried to boot from RPM but is says "error getting HDD parameters". I'm suspecting the MBR is corrupted. Is there any workaround...
Hi, Where can i get the latest source code for RPM?. Is it available? The last version of the Source code is v2.3.7. I need them to study for using the Int13h...
Tried to format a linux swap partition after creating one but this doesn't seems to work for me. Had to run 'mkswap' on the partition after booting linux. Am I...
the Bios can well detect the Western Digi 80G HDD but after that it will give an error "HDD error". I have tried the diagnostic test but it couldn't detect the...
the Bios can well detect the Western Digi 80G HDD but after that it will give an error "HDD error". I have tried the diagnostic test but it couldn't detect the...
hi, how can i write a program that read the hard disk size??! i wrote a program that gets the hard disk cylinders, heads, sectors and then compute the size and...
Ok, so I erased the boot sector for my fat32 partition. Why? Because I am stupid and by mistake copyed lilo there. Now I have used rma, it sees the partition...
... easiest way to recover from a borken lilo install is to get hold of a windows 98 startup/recovery disk, boot it, and type "FDISK /MBR" which will replace...
... Doc Chiron here: When it is the partition's boot sector (e.g. CHS 0,1,1) that is corrupted, FDISK /MBR will not help at all, unless there is added damage...
... Doc Chiron here: The first HDD (normally, the only bootable HDD) should be numbered 128 or 0x80 in hex. Second drive is 129 or 81 hex. Try using TESTDISK...
... Doc: Are your BIOS-SETUP IDE modes set for LBA as they must be? While set that way, what CHS values do they display for use with DOS, which couldn't use ...