Re: Vulcan HD Breakthru

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> In article <3c8482c6@news.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
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> >First, I have some drives from old PC's  that are identical to my
Vulcan's
> >stock drive, so I knew they would work. They didn't work at first, the
> >Vulcan Partion Manager couldn't save the partion info. I had to use an
> >ancient PC util called HDTEST to "low-level format" the drives first.
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> Odds are you only needed to wipe the drive.  A Linux boot floppy will do
> that for you...

Yeah, I think you're right. The HDTEST method is probably best for most
people, though. Just boot DOS, run the program, select the "Format" menu,
and format.
-Paul