Remove hard disk manager software

[Fra]

I picked up a PC from a local recycling centre P60, 500mb HD, sound and cd-rom.
The trouble is l think some one tried to reformat the HD (seagate) as the disk is empty and boots as far as a small blue box that displays "Micro House International" Overdrive tm.
A search on google leads me to think it is a disk manager software.
I tried fdisk to delete any partitions but there only seemed to be one.
When l try to install windows it offer a box saying that it recognises a sector that may have disc compression software running.
Does anyone know a way to remove this software or a utility that may do this?

TIA and Regards

Fran

PS. The PC will hopefully be donated to a overseas charity that the reason for going to this trouble.

[iisbob]

Once again i recommend Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.ranish.com/part) to the rescue! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

It's FREE, does everything Partition magic does, and will fit nicely onto a standard boot floppy.

Use it to " zero-fill " the drive; in essence you'll be wiping the drive clean, then you can FDISK/FORMAT it for a window's install.



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iisbob

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[This message has been edited by iisbob (edited 04-06-2002).]

[Fra]

Cheers iisbob,
the Ranish Partition Manager seems to be a useful little tool.

Thanks for the info and link.

Fran