Drive Image replaced, now hard drive won't format

[ScottCurwood]

I have about 75 new workstations we are installing. I took one, set it up with windows 2000 and all the software we would need here where I work. I created an image with Drive Image Pro 4 and began replacing the factory default with the image on my workstations. One workstation is giving me problems. The hard drive can't be formatted. I formated it and it still showed the same information(files still there) as before. I fdisk'd it, still no change. I tried several diferent low level formating tools, no change. Can this be fixed? Anyone out there know of a tool that I could download that might be more useful than the Maxtor and Seagate ones I tried. It's a Maxtor 20 gig drive. Brand new.

 

[19753]

go into bios and change drive to smaller one them fdisk it reboot and format. go back in to bios and set corect size fdisk - reboot - format.

 

[IMRevbudgreen]

Whats the OS of this current HDD? SCSI or IDE? Taking the HDD out of that machine and formatting on the secondary controller of a different machine running 2000 will allow you to format it NTFS. You should be able to restore the image then.
If SCSI, same idead, just change ID# on the drive.
Good Luck
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