hard drive volume label has strange characters

[ramshackle]

I'm trying to reformat a HD with fdisk but the volume label has extremely unusual characters that I can't enter from my keyboard thus preventing me from deleting the primary dos partition. This looks fishy to me, probably the work of Mordor!
Help!
How can I delete this primary dos partition if I can't match the characters in the name?

 

[TekTippy4U]

Use the drive Manu's LLF utility to write zeros to the disc or try Killdisk

http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm

sounds like a corrupted/infected BIOS or MBR

TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions.
Backup All Important Data/Docs..All involved shall be spared the grief.

 

[edfair]

Sounds like the drive was originally fdisked with a later version than you are trying now.
You'll probably find that the label is reading from a different place when you find the right fdisk to match what you have.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Matheny]

Sorry about your problem. Sound like your label may be composed of ASCII characters. You might be able to decode by reviewing the characters at this site:

http://www.asciitable.com/

Your question gave me a great time-wasting idea. I'm going to be fdisking a drive in the next day or two—I think I'll try this label:

+-+-+-+​

I really do have better things to occupy my time, but sometimes "you just have to!"