Is it possible to slave a hard drive, to decompress it's content?

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RD Ramirez

I have (2) seagate hard drives which I tried to re-
partition and formatt, but was able to, due to those
drives having once had windows 2000 installed on them.
Apparently, these drives have compressed data on them, it
seems that this data is some where in the middle of the
disk.
I was able to partially run fdisk on them,and as it seems
I was only able to delete the first 500 Mbs of each drive.
Running SCANDISK-on a surface scan, displayed the first,
(5-to-6), rows (in-yellow), as being partitioned and
formatted. But when I try to run set-up, I get this
message "Drive 0 not detected"and that there are possible
compressed files on this disk, that I must first remove
them.
Can you help me out here, I've tried everything I could
think of, and some. "HELP"...
Thank You,
R.D.Ramirez
 
Hi, RD.

Unless you are planning to revert to Win9x/ME, there is no need to use the
old MS-DOS tools, such as FDISK and Format.exe. Just install those HDs as
secondary or slave drives. Boot into Win2K and use Disk Management to
delete any existing partition. Then you can create new partitions and
format them. Microsoft buried Disk Management so deeply that many users
still haven't found it. One quick way to get to it is to type at the Run
prompt: diskmgmt.msc

Disk Management is the tool that we use in Win2K to create partitions,
format them and delete them - and assign drive letters. FDISK and
Format.exe won't run under Win2K, but they are not needed.

The previous OS and type of data on the drives should not matter. You will
be deleting "whatever" was there before, without regard to the partition's
applications, data, or even how it was formatted (FAT or NTFS). You will
just tell Disk Management, "What is there is not important. Bulldoze it and
start over.

Another way is to physically install the HD as primary master. Then boot
from the WinXP CD-ROM and start Setup. One of the first options is to
repartition and/or reformat the HD. Let it create the new partition (wiping
out the old one in the process) and format it. Then abort Setup.

RC
 
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