How to reset Seagate Barracuda 120 G to "virgin"?

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greglewin

Hi,

How can a Seagate Barracuda 120 G drive be reset to "virgin",
i.e. blanked out partition table and boot block?


Greg.
 
Hi,

How can a Seagate Barracuda 120 G drive be reset to "virgin",
i.e. blanked out partition table and boot block?


Greg.
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Go to the Seagate site.If they are like most hard drive maker's they
will have a free program to do at least a zero write.Anything more
than this should only be done by a hard drive tech or you could ruin
the drive.
HTH



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Go to the Seagate site.If they are like most hard drive maker's they
will have a free program to do at least a zero write.Anything more
than this should only be done by a hard drive tech or you could ruin
the drive.
HTH
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I had of course been to the Seagate site, where the information was
buried deep enough for me to miss it first time round. Thank you for
making me look again ... it looks like it's the zero option on the
"starter" diskette.

What's that about the lemmings? (I do remember the scene from the Disney
film quite well (White Wilderness I think)).

Greg.
 
I had of course been to the Seagate site, where the information was
buried deep enough for me to miss it first time round. Thank you for
making me look again ... it looks like it's the zero option on the
"starter" diskette.

What's that about the lemmings? (I do remember the scene from the Disney
film quite well (White Wilderness I think)).

Greg.
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Yes.When the film crew got there they discovered that lemmings don't
actually commit suicide if their population grows to big.They do fall
off cliffs though because that's where they live<grin>.Apparantly the
film crew,not wanting to go away without the shot,herded up a load of
lemmings and drove them off the cliff using their vehicles.Such a nice
company as well :O)





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I had of course been to the Seagate site, where the information was
buried deep enough for me to miss it first time round. Thank you for
making me look again ... it looks like it's the zero option on the
"starter" diskette.
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That will work, but will take a loooong time to write zeros to the whole
drive.

For a quick way to use debug to clear the partition sector, see:

http://www.firmware.com/support/hdclear.htm

I just writes zeros to cyl 0, head 0, track 1, which is the partition
table.

Virg Wall
 
V W Wall said:
V said:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:05:18 +0000

Looks like they have redone the site: Use:

http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/hdclear.htm

Or for a DOS program to do the same thing:

http://www.firmware.com/support/atapro/index.htm#zapart
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It turns out the Seagate Diskwizard floppy version has two zero-write
options, full for the whole disk and quick for the first 63 sectors
(presumably cylinder 0), which of course is the one I went for ... and it
has done what I wanted. Thanks to all.

I shall read the website too.

Greg.
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It turns out the Seagate Diskwizard floppy version has two zero-write
options, full for the whole disk and quick for the first 63 sectors
(presumably cylinder 0), which of course is the one I went for ... and it
has done what I wanted. Thanks to all.
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Saves a lot of time over zeroing out the whole drive.

I have DiskWizard and just used it to install a new 80GB drive. Guess I
should check out the other programs on it! Charity begins at home. ;-)
I shall read the website too.
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It does have some useful info--mostly about BIOS.

Virg Wall
 
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