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TT4U I am trying to get my friend to locate the oem cd but so far it is a no show. I have another OEM CD from a Dell laptop. Would that work on a Gateway? diogenes10 I tried the software previously but couldn't get it to run. I downloaded it from the Hitachi site and put it on a floppy...

Thanks Edfair for your response. Can you clarify what you were saying about runing something on this unformatted disk. Without the c: drive being formatted is there a way to run disk diagnostics to see if the drive is still within specs. As for a lowlevel/zero fill I don't know where I could...

After much work I think the hard drive has some errors that will not allow me to format the drive. I have tried 6 different times to format the drive and it terminates the format at different spots when trying to recover allocation units. It appears that sometimes it gets past some of the...

Thanks dkdude for the quick response. I formatted it into one large drive and made the only partition (1) as the active drive. Now I have some other problem areas. this laptop requires changing out the floppy unit with the CD unit. So to start up I booted to the floppie without CD support...

Hi, I am new to this forum and need some help on formatting the hard drive on a Gateway 2000 laptop. The drive is a Hitachi 3.0-GB IDE Hard Disk. When I was given this laptop (by a friend) someone had tried to load Win 2000 professional from a network I think and it didn't take. The laptop...