Re: Vulcan HD Breakthru

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

I am not clear on what the HDTEST does when it is told to format an IDE
drive, but people should keep in mind that earlier IDE drives may not like
to be "formatted;" some older drives are reduced to a paper weight that way.
I think it is by far safer to wipe the partition tables and boot block.

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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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.