I have a Hard Drive problem that when i use Fdisk to partition the drive, either if i choose large disk support or no large disk support, my system freezes and its a black screen with just that blinking underscore where the Y or N was for choosing the disk support i wanted. There are also NO current logical drives at all on this drive. This drive is only 3 months old. Its a 10GB Seagate.

Its the only hard drive i have in the system, BIOS detects it during POST, and this piticular Hard drive does the exact same thing in another computer (using a different 40-pin ribbon cable and different IDE channels). The jumpers are set right.

My guess is that the MBR or the partion table is screwed up. My questions are: How can i erase partion table and start with a fresh clean partion table? And how do i delete the MBR so i can start a fresh one?

Maybe those things might fix the problem. Any other suggestions, besides deleting the partion table and MBR?

Try running fdisk /mbr first to wipe the MBR, though I doubt that's the problem -- but worth a try.

Only 3 months old, I would say contact the company about returning it, it's still under warranty.

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Was NT installed on the hard drive? If so this is a little more difficult to eradicate. Also try running Fdisk from different operating systems. i.e. Win95A, Win95B, Win98.
More importantly, are you sure that your Bios can handle a hard drive this large? Look for a Bios Flash upgrade for your system then give'r a try!
Are there jumper settings for CHS, LHS, LBA? Play with these settings. You may get one to work but you probably won't have the full capacity of the drive.
If none of the above work, take Paleo Pete's suggestion and return it since it's only 3 months old! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by BobD (edited 12-14-2000).]

Hi,

I had the same problem ( are you using NT4? )

If so take a look at a forum i used
http://forums.compuserve.com/ContentLink.asp?SRV=WindowsNT&AREA=Msgs&SEC=2

regards

Topi

I have used a debug routine, Clear Partition (http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/hdclear.htm)
when fdisk fails because of a corrupted boot partition or drive overlay software that would not uninstall.

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