Peter:
I started the low level format of the drive,
but at the rate it was going it would have taken
about 9 hours. I stopped it at the 34% point.
This did not change the size available for
partitioning. I will do the low level formatting
again and let it go to completion to see if that
works.
Wally
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:05:50 -0500 Peter Kaulback
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wally, please ignore my BIOS recommendation then, if this computer
> has
> had a similar problem in the past.
>
> The low level format is very safe, I have done it numerous times.
> And
> you do not necessarily have to run it over 100% of the drive (it
> takes a
> long time to this on a big drive like yours), a minimum of 2% is
> fine to
> restore the drive to the original factory specifications. XP's
> format
> system won't do it right, you must do a low level format.
>
> In fact I did a low level on a 340 mb drive in an old 486 recently,
> like
> new now.
>
> HTH
>
> Peter Kaulback
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