[TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem

Hello;

The SOLUTION to your problem can be solved if the HARD DISK is well FIXED - 
using FDISK. I will advice that if you are not GOOD at HANDLING FDISK, kindly 
consult a friend who is an expert to HELP YOU.

Otherwise for a try, start your machine with a clean VIRUS FREE WINDOWS 98 
SECOND EDITION (SE) START-UP FLOPPY DISK or the WINDOWS 98SE CDROM, and when 
the A:\ or D:\ is displayed, follow the STEPS DESCRIBED BELOW. 

From your story given, FOR the OPTION of SETTING your HARD DISK as MASTER ONLY 
(i.e ONLY one PARTITION), use STEPS 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14. 

ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN USE THIS PROGRAM CALLED PDISK, WHICH IS RUN AT a DOS 
PROMPT TO PARTITION YOUR HARD DISK DRIVE. I have emailed a copy to your address.

NB: 
Make SURE you HAVE a BACKUP of ALL YOUR IMPORTANT FILES

Steps for partitioning a hard drive using FDISK 
  1.. If you're A:\ prompt, or  D:\ prompt, i.e when using the CDROM
  2.. Type "FDISK" and press ENTER. 
  3.. If you're changing the partitions on an existing disk, choose option 4 
from the FDISK menu to display existing partition information. 
  4.. If you have more than one drive in the MACHINE, use option 5 to change / 
select the drive you want to PARTITION.
  5.. If all of the space on the drive is already partitioned, you will need to 
use FDISK menu option 3 to remove existing partitions before creating new ones. 
  6.. For a new drive from which you will boot your PC, you must first create a 
Primary DOS Partition. Choose option 1 from the FDISK main menu and Select 
option 1 from the Create menu to create a Primary DOS Partition. 
  7.. If you only want to have one partition on the drive, type Y when prompted 
to make one large partition. If making multiple partitions, type N. 
  8.. Enter the size for the partition if you selected N in step 6. 
  9.. To create an extended (non-bootable) DOS partition, choose option 1 from 
the main FDISK menu, then option 2 from the Create menu. 
  10.. Press enter to use all remaining available space for the partition. 
  11.. Create logical drives on the extended partition by entering the desired 
size(s) in MB or percent of disk space. 
  12.. Continue until all available space is assigned to logical drives. 
  13.. If you will be booting from this disk, choose option 2 from the FDISK 
menu and enter 1 to make the primary DOS partition ACTIVE. 
  14.. Press the ESC key to exit FDISK. If running from Windows 9x, you must 
manually reboot your PC at this point. You must format all partitions before 
they can be used.
How to Format a Hard Disk 
After you create the partitions, you must format the partitions: 
  1.. Restart your computer with the Startup disk in the floppy disk drive. 

  NOTE : If you are using a Windows 95 Startup disk, a command prompt is 
displayed and you can skip to step 2. If you are using a Windows 98, Windows 98 
Second Edition, or Windows Me Startup disk, select the Start computer without 
CD-ROM support menu option when the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed. 

  2.. When a command prompt is displayed, type format c: /s , and then press 
ENTER. This command transfers the system files and should only be used when you 
format drive C (or your "active" drive). For all other partitions, type format 
drive : (where drive is the letter of the partition that you want to format). 

  NOTE : If you receive a "Bad command" or "Bad file name" error message, you 
may need to extract the Format.com tool to your boot disk. To do this, type the 
following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER: 
    extract ebd.cab format.com 
  After the Format.com tool is extracted to your boot disk, type format c: /s t 
a command prompt to format your active partition, or type format drive : if you 
want to format a partition that is not your active partition. 

  3.. When you successfully run the Format.com tool, you receive the following 
message: 


    WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! 
    Proceed with Format? 
  4.. Press Y, and then press ENTER to format drive C. 

  5.. After the format procedure is finished, you receive the following 
message: 
    Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? 
  NOTE : This is an optional feature that you can use to type a name for the 
drive. You can either type an 11-character name for the drive, or you can leave 
it blank by pressing ENTER. 
I hope this idea will do to alleviate your worries.

Viktoria




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RS Tek Inc" <rstek@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem


> 
> Ok, first things first,  you don't need a management program for your Hd.
> Go to fdisk and take it to one partition.  Multiple partitions are not
> needed anymore.  Restart the pc with your win98 boot disk in drive A and
> your cd in the cd drive.  When you get your A prompt type"setup" then let
> windows format your HD and install itself.  If it still blows up you may
> have a dirty cd-rom drive.  I've had many problems with bum cd-rom drives
> causing problems like you described.  Lastly, try re-loading the default
> settings for the bios.  They usually will work with a clean install.
> 
> If you have any other questions let me know.
> 
> Frank
> Rs-Tek Inc.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adam miller" <adamt123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:14 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] seagate hard drive problem
> 
> 
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > i have a stupid problem with a seagate st31720 hard drive. i wanted to
> > re-install windows from scratch on a differant computer, and i formatted
> the
> > whole drive and re partitioned it, without knowing you had to install this
> > disk manager, anyway, i downloaded the disk manager and ran fdisk one more
> > time, scandisk says no errors are found on the drive, so i try to run
> setup
> > for window 98, it goes through scandisk, and after you exit scandisk and
> go
> > to the screen where it says windows is installing files nesacary for
> setup,
> > the computer freezes, i tried another disc and i get differant errors,
> like
> > package is corrupt, and so on, everything looks ok in the bios, i am using
> a
> > via 700MHZ processor, award bios, anyone have any ideas? this thing is
> > driving me crazy.............im trying to put a computer together for one
> of
> > my nephews, so any advice is much apreciate,
> >
> > troy
> >
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