gamehead200 Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 I found this old HD lying around in my house, so I decided to stick it in my computer...When I tried formatting it with Partition Magic 7.0, this is the error that it gave me:Operation (1 of 1) Formatting partition: *: (BADMBR, Primary volume, 516.3 MB on Disk:2) New label and type: (FAT)Does it have something to do with the MBR or something?BTW, I was formatting it from FAT32 to FAT...But in Partition Magic, it showed the drive as "BAD"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Yes. Instead of just formatting the drive do a complete low level format. Use the manufacture's utility disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 4, 2003 Author Share Posted January 4, 2003 What manufacture's disk? This is an OLD QUANTUM HD!I also ran PartitionInfo, and this is what it gave me:===========================================================================Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 1120 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 59 Sectors/TrackSystem PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects===========================================================================NO NAME 0 0 80 0 1 5 0B 1023 15 59 63 1,031,729Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 0 80 0 1 5 0B 1092 15 59 63 1031729Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 5.===========================================================================Partition Information for Disk 2: 516.3 MegabytesVolume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects===========================================================================E:NO NAME FAT32 Pri,Boot 503.8 0 0 63 1,031,729 1,031,729 0 Unallocated Pri 12.4 None -- 1,031,792 25,488 0 25,488===========================================================================Boot Record for drive E: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 63, Type: FAT32)=========================================================================== 1. Jump: EB 58 90 2. OEM Name: MSDOS5.0 3. Bytes per Sector: 512 4. Sectors per Cluster: 8 5. Reserved Sectors: 38 6. Number of FAT's: 2 7. Reserved: 0x0000 8. Reserved: 0x0000 9. Media Descriptor: 0xF810. Sectors per FAT: 011. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)14. Big Total Sectors: 1031121 (0xFBBD1)15. Big Sectors per FAT: 100516. Extended Flags: 0x000017. FS Version: 018. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)19. FS Info Sector: 120. Backup Boot Sector: 621. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000 22. Drive ID: 0x8023. Reserved for NT: 0x0024. Extended Boot Sig: 0x2925. Serial Number: 0xB4300B8B26. Volume Name: NO NAME 27. File System Type: FAT32 28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Quantum is the manufacturer of the hard drive. Maxtor now provides support for your hard drive. Click Here and download MaxBlast Plus II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Quantum is the manufacturer of the hard drive. Maxtor now provides support for your hard drive. Click Here and download MaxBlast Plus II.Didn't Seagate manufacture Quantum hard drive models? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Quantum is the manufacturer of the hard drive. Maxtor now provides support for your hard drive. Click Here and download MaxBlast Plus II.Didn't Seagate manufacture Quantum hard drive models?I do not know if Seagate manufactured for Quantum. But I would not be at all surprised.http://www.quantum.com/AM/about/contact/ha...ive_support.htmHard Drives Previously Sold by Quantum are Now Supported by MaxtorEffective April 2, 2001, Quantum Corporation's hard disk drive division completed its merger with Maxtor Corporation. All Quantum hard disk drive product support and services have been transferred to Maxtor. For information, warranty, support, rebates, and other services regarding Quantum hard disk drives, please contact Maxtor's U.S.A. customer support at 1-800-262-9867 or refer to the Maxtor's Web site for additional contact and support information:Visit www.maxtor.com/en/support/contact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 or try fdisk.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 When I get hold of a old hard drive I always low level format and then rebuild it because you do not know what was on the drive and why it is not in use. The hd is 500 plus MB and comes from the CIH era. I would rebuild it in your test system - not in any of your good systems. I have lost a few PCs in the past and learned the hard way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS_Dragons Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Sort of wondering why you would even mess around with a 1/2 GB hard drive anyway. What are you going to do with it? Brand new "MANY" GB drives cost less than the cost of the time it will take you to get it FDISKED, Formatted, and installed.LS_Dragons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 I use Kill Disk in cases like this. It is freeware and works well for me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 5, 2003 Author Share Posted January 5, 2003 Hmmmm.....my friends are stupid and think that 500MB is a lot so they want the drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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