Mother board issue I think?? 2

[talmageb]

I have a friends PC that started to act up. I did not have much time to troubleshoot it, so I decided to FDISK and reformat w/ 2000 pro. The install went fine until I staretd to format the partition, about half way through I got an error that would not let me continue do to possibly damaging hardware. I thought it was a controller issue so I put everything on one controller (tried this on both) same error. I tried FDISK again and booted to a 98 bootdisk and tried to run win98 setup. It would not access the cdrom for the install. Any input would be great I am thinking it is a motherboard issue???

 

[gargouille]

As long as the hard drive and the CDROM were jumpered/cabled correctly, you've used the correct troubleshooting procedure to confirm a likely problem with the IDE controller on the mainboard.
Did the BIOS see the drives correctly when you moved them?

 

[jmatt]

You will need to use this .

Delpart.exe From NT 3.51, this utility can delete extended NTFS, Lilo, and just about any other type of partition .
DELPART is a DOS based utility that will remove NTFS partitions from hard drives. FDISK is unable to remove some types of NTFS partitions.
DELPART can wipe clean a hard drive, then you can use FDISK to create partitions normally.

http://www.bootdisk.com

http://www.michalferber.com/downloads.asp

http://www.2e.org/files.htm

 

[talmageb]

Thanks for the input fellows. The BIOS did recognize the drives. Jmatt thanks for the tip on the Utility.

 

[paparazi]

Under these circumstances I prefer to use the manufactures hard drive utility tools ie: Maxtor, IBM, Seagate, Western digital etc etc.
They have some very useful dedicated tools for low level formatting as well as hard drive checkups/health checks.
Just go to the appropriate site to download.
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