Cannot See drive?

[SufferWell1396]

Hey everyone, im just having all kinds of problems with windows today:p

I have an old drive thats been bombed with FDISK from the MS-DOS prompt.

I want to access it, partition it, and install NT 4/NT 3.51 on it. The only problem? Win ME or 2000 cannot see the drive, but on both if i go to system and check if the drive is working right, they both say its a-okay.

Partition Magic will cancel out with an error:

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i107/SufferWell1396/Error.jpg

and with that i suppose it is talking about the old hard drive.

How can i access and format this drive to make it usable?

[Erik]

Have you tried going to Computer Management, and then Local Disks to format and partition so Windows will recognize and give it a drive letter? Master/Slave cable settings properly chosen?

[Paul Komski]

The drive may have an abnormal mbr. Suggest you use BiNG from a floppy or cd to write standard code to its boot record or wipe the drive with the manufacturer's own utility. You could also use fdisk /mbr but that is best done with only the problem drive attached at the time. If there is any old overlay on the drive then wiping it from a floppy or cd is the best method.