I took a 3.2 GB Seagate HD from an old machine where I had installed Dynamic Drive Overlay onto it. The new machine correctly identifies the drive parameters (LBA), but apparently the drive cannot be written to. Both MS-DOS and Windows 2000 installations fail when they try to access the drive.
Seagate Disk Manager software finds something on the drive that affects the MBR and gives instructions on how to remove or replace it. I tried both options - they reported success, however nothing changed.. Rebooting and running Disk Manager gives the same warning again.
I also tried the newer DiscWizard software. It gave no warnings, so I just tried to partition and format the drive with it, which happened rather quickly and I couldn't hear the HD do anything.. Then it asked for an OS diskette and appeared to copy the system files, but still the drive wouldn't boot.
Any ideas? Could a low level format be the solution?
PS. I also tried another IDE cable.
Seagate Disk Manager software finds something on the drive that affects the MBR and gives instructions on how to remove or replace it. I tried both options - they reported success, however nothing changed.. Rebooting and running Disk Manager gives the same warning again.
I also tried the newer DiscWizard software. It gave no warnings, so I just tried to partition and format the drive with it, which happened rather quickly and I couldn't hear the HD do anything.. Then it asked for an OS diskette and appeared to copy the system files, but still the drive wouldn't boot.
Any ideas? Could a low level format be the solution?
PS. I also tried another IDE cable.
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