Can't format or write zero's to H.D.

[weber]

My friend gave me this problem from his kids computer. It's a Epox 8KTA2 mobo with a 800 mghz. AMD Athlon , 256 Kingston memory and a newer 20 gb. Western Digital hardrive.
I figure that theres some kind of virus (worm)on it .

I tried writing zero's to the drive with Western Digital's diagnostic program, nothing happens but the H.D. light keeps illuminated but no progress on the zeros to drive scale. Although, the WD diagnostic's say the drive is O.K. in hardware respects.

I tried Windows98's format C: with no luck, sez it needs to be partitioned....fdisk won't work either.

I tried Autoclave to write zeros to drive, it just keeps resetting itself.

Any down-loadable programs that I can beat this problem?

 

[BillyBob313]

The best probram I have found is called Wipe Drive

 

[Jeff7]

Put IBM's ZAP.com onto a boot disk. Use this on the hard drive.
The command ZAP 0 will take care of the primary master; ZAP 1 the primary slave, and so on.
Just use it on the right drive.

It very quickly wipes out any partition information on the drive; after you use that, then give Fdisk a shot.


And when you say "Fdisk won't work," what do you mean? What does it do?