Blank Compressed Harddrive

[Guest_imported]

Hi, I have a hard drive that had been compressed in the past and then formatted. There is no operating system on the machine now. Is there any way to remove the compression as it won't let me install windows. It keeps on telling me that a compressed volume or a disk cache utility had been detected. I have tried fdisking but fdisk doesn't see the compressed drive. When you fdisk it only see's 1.2 GB out of the 2.4GB it meant to have. Can any one help?

Thanks

Wes

 

[Chapium]

I'd do a low level format. It may take a while, but its the simplest. Try searching

http://www.google.com

The program I ended up using on my Quantum Bigfoot was a program called Zero Disk or Zdisk. Other than that, if you want to try to hope for a shortcut to work, try running fdisk /mbr. Maybe after that Fdisk will let you see your drive. Again, google is the god for miscellaneous tech solutions (other than this site that is ;-)