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Different Drive Geometries?

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CTrainBEB

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I got a 40gig seagate from my friend recently and have it hooked up through a PCI IDE card. I got some of his data off of it and now I would like to reformat it and make it my own. It came from a compaq so the drive has two partitions, the system_sav partition and then everything else.

I started partition magic to work on it and I get an error that says the disk appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry. It instructs me to delete partitions and create new ones. I try to do this but it will not work. Evyertime I try and format it it encounters an error and will not even begin the format. Anyone have any ideas?
 
have you tried using an old win98 bootup disk and running fdisk? (to delete all partitions/file systems) then maybe it will let you format it
 
Your best bet is to "zero" the hdd first and then partition and format. You can download a "zero'ing" utility from seagate. Goodluck.
 
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