Re: SP2 problem

Thank you John, sorry I didn't get back to thank you sooner, I was too
nervous about doing the zerofill thingy, so I went out and bought a new hard
drive and have been spending the last two days setting it up.

I installed a 160g but it"s only registering as a 130gb. Any way to fix
that?
I'll probably never use the extra 30 but I was just wondering.

thanks again


"John" <jmatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1147740057.401914.117590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Newsie wrote:
Heres the deal: my computer was a mess, the only thing that would fix it
was to do a complete reformat.

I would do it again, use both of these, start with Zap 1st. Both can go
on your boot disk.
Zap
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm#ZAP
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Zap is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128
sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the
first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE
drives. This function is now included in the Drive Fitness Test.

=======================================

WIPE OUT
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/wipeout.zip
Freeware.
WIPE OUT: as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your
hard drive. For those times when an industrial strength cleaner is
needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have left behind. A readme
file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL
data from the Hard Drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk, make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy
1st.
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter.

Now run fdisk to set up partitions.
http://fdisk.radified.com/
When done, reboot & format.



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