IBM Disk Manager, Its no longer available for download on their site...any other suggestions

[XRdirtHead]

I have some IBM hard drives and loved the Disk Manager utility that they had on their website. It was a bootable floppy that would walk you through testing and formatting the hard drive. I know there is always FDISK but "Disk Manager" was a cool program to have....
Are there any other programs like that one out there..........?

 

[JZilla]

Since IBM joined their drive division with Hitachi, maybe some of these will work?

 

[XRdirtHead]

Utilities to help you install your new drive
Disk Manager | Feature Tool

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Disk Manager
Looking for Disk Manager? Disk Manager is no longer available for download on our site, because systems with Windows XP and 2000 don't require it. Regardless whether you use Windows 9.x or the latest version of Windows, our simple installation guide will take you through the installation steps, and our partitioning and formatting guide covers all the details you need to know for installing our drive on Windows operating systems.
Please follow the advice in these guides. If you need additional help or have questions, feel free to contact our support center.

Its so lame that they can't leave a small file up on their server!

 

[Yomicron]

is this it?

from www.octools.com

Disk Manager is used for IBM IDE hard disk drives greater than 540 MB with a BIOS that has a limitation such as 528 MB, 2.1GB, 4.2GB, and 8.4GB. It is a hard drive installation program that will automatically identify, partition and format your hard disk drive. This software is for IBM drives only and features easy-to-use functionality, Windows 95/98 OSR2-FAT 32 support, on-line help, and jumper database
Limitations: Centos adapters are not supported. Check Award BIOS 4.5x limitation for drives larger than 33.8 GB.
system: Windows 95/98

ibm-dm.exe (732KB ver9.52)

I also found IBM Disk Manager 2000

 

[corkyg]

What you describe is IBM's Drive Fitness Test program - it is now on the Hitachi site. It is still available at IBM's site: DFT

 

[XRdirtHead]

THANKS!