I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use
with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical
partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and
failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't
delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs,
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one)
tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the
partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean
this thing?

"HereWeGoYetAgain" <herewegoyetagain@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20050108103356.11831.00002638@mb-m16.aol.com...
Go to the manufacturers website and download their drive utilitiy. You
should be able to at least ZERO the drive and after that everything should
work with it.

Other tools (FDISK /MBR, etc.) might be able to get the drive to a state
where you could repartition, but if you want to be sure, just ZERO the
drive.

On 08 Jan 2005 15:33:56 GMT, herewegoyetagain@aol.com
(HereWeGoYetAgain) wrote:

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HereWeGoYetAgain wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I
have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is
dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by
partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as
opposed to folders?

J.

Jimmy wrote:
I can't speak for the OP, but I can describe a scenario with a lot of
partitions on one hard drive. At one time, I kept such a drive with
multiple 700 Mb partitions because I was building CD-rom images --
installers for multiple product lines/versions.

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:21:01 -0500, "Jimmy" <Jimmycliff-f@xemaps.com>
wrote:

As opposed to folders?...yes.

But, since you have separate, dedicated drives, you have just as good
a system.

Partitions/drives are better than folders when it comes to
maintenance. You don't need to defrag a dedicated partition/drive.
Also, accessing system/operating files is quicker when the drive isn't
also crowded with specific data (video, etc.) files.

Moreover, you can designate a specific cluster size for specific type
files when you have a dedicated partition/drive. I keep the clusters
for my regular operating files at 8k. But my multi-media partitions
are set to 32k...since the files going here are usually very
large...so there is little waste with a large cluster size for these
files.

I find 4k default clusters are usually too slow on most drives.


Have a nice one...

Trent©

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Trent© wrote:
Thank you. That was the best explaination I have heard so far.

Regards.
J.

It hangs

Fdisk /mbr, works I think, well it "comes back" with :A
but then fdisk after that hangs



Lots of reasons, I used this drive as a backup
for images of my sisters, bothers, friends, clients
pc's, "fresh" copies of Win98se, W2k, Xp etc,
copies of my system when I want to experiment etc.

HWGYA wrote:
So do you think if I have a backup drive that has different file types like
photos and software I should definitely separate them into various
partitions instead of just folders? The I am guessing that the partitions I
use the most will only be that part of the drive I would be defragging. This
sound more effective if I have this right.

Thanks.

J.

Do a low level format (zero fill) with debug.exe from DOS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q106419/


Regards,
Chris

That did Chris, Much, Much, Much Thanks
Next beer...... Next Case in on me, anytime.

HWGYA