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It sounds like you have done everything you can. The one thing I would
still try is to isolate the Seagate: no CD, no other disk. Use a program on
floppy (i.e. Partition Magic boot disks, since you said you had that) and
try to format, check for errors, and otherwise beat-up the drive to see if
it finds any problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Kaplun [mailto:ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:00 PM
To: Craig; Ray Gurke; Free; rjbiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; OMEGA-LIST
Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
Hello Free, Mark, Ray, Craig, Sentinel, List -
I combine and HERE is THE RESULTS.
I am truly appreciating your involvement in trying to resolve my HD
problem with formatting.
I left on my new computer that I put from new parts, in a way Mark
Brown did, only
1. Unformatted 60Gb HD that connected to IDE0
2. Plextor CD ROM that connected to IDE1 and
3. Floppy 1.44 Drive.
I have Original Win2k on one CD, SP2.
Here what I did:
Turn on computer.
When BIOS boot started, I inserted Win2k into CD-ROM.
When computer said << press any key to boot CD-ROM >> I pressed
<enter> key.
Win2k session started.
When Win2k loaded it displayed - recognized two FAT32 partitions C:
and D:, each 2048-Mb and unformatted empty space of HD.
It asked where do I want to set OS.
I pointed to 2Gb partition C:.
It asked if I want to format that C: I said NO leave existing format.
Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
I did the same with D:. However, choose new format NTFS.
Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
Then I created 2Gb new partition E:. Choose format NTFS.
Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
Then I created 1Gb partition F:. Choose format NTFS.
Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
I ended Win2k session.
All that was at the same Win2k session.
NO RESULTS ACHIEVED.
What did I miss?
Thanks in advance.
Val
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