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Pri Slave will not partition cant format

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by casemaker

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Hi,
I have a system that I lost the previous HDD. I flashed the BIOS to see if that might fix the issue. The issue was present before I flashed and is still the issue after. I get the BIOS to find both drives when set to auto and auto find. The size is reported correctly, 2 40 GB Maxtors. Problem is when I boot using W98 start disk and use the FDISK command it see's 2 drives but will not let me partition the slave. Jumpers are set correctly.
Thanks

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by hawgfan

You probably know you have to select "Change drive" in the main FDISK menu, but when you do this,what kind of error message do you get when you try?

by gkheart1

Hi,

You may want to go to maxtor.com and download and run the powermax hard drive repair utility.
Choose the utility for your model hard drive.
I know you can do a low level format by using their tools and maybe they also have partitioning tools for their drives as well.
I have used their low level formating to repair
drives that had bad sectors reported. I hope this
helps! Regards, Gil

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