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musicman
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 8:36 pm: | |
Have an Abit Kx133 with built in promise u/100 controller.
Ibm gxp 15 gig hd
Keeps losing it's partition.
i've reformated, i've fdisk /mbr and reformated,
Can't figure this one out.
anybone have any ideas? |
Dave
| | Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 10:02 pm: | |
Try running IBM's diagnostic utility. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Drive fitness
If the drive passes the tests, you may have a virus that keeps wiping out your hard drive. Use the "wipe" option in the utility to write zeros to every sector of the drive. There may also be a flash update for your drive. There have been a number of problems with UDMA controllers and particular drives. Try taking out the controller and just using the onboard IDE controller. If the problem goes away, you have your culprit. |
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