re help my hard drive id messed dave david c cat uucp wrote vazzag vccnw its rpi edu gregory anthony vazzana writes howdy the other day i was using norton s speeddisk to optimize my seagate mb h problem persisted i backed up all essential data and decided to reformat my hard drive when i attempted this it got to the th clylinder th head and gave me an error message saying that it could not find the sector i have tried everything i can think of now i can t even access my hard driv to write information to it i tried to boot up with my ms dos disks but ms d tries to reformat my hard drive and gets of the way through to say error formatting hard drive press f to exit i tried to scan my hard drive for viruses but i can t access it and i get a message when i try to do a dir saying error int can anyone help me i have no idea what to do thanks in advance for any help greg try a bios level format via the debug command g xxxx where xxxx is the hex address of the hd controller bios location if this will not work a last resort would be to take a large magnet to the hard disk but this has to be done properly or you will cause or could cause more damage than has been done already disclaimer i am not responsible for your actions by directly applying a large magnet to your hard disk if done correctly the magnet trick will wipe out everything on the hard disk completely and a low level bios format might succeed david china cat bbs c cat david sed csc com n uunet mimsy anagld c cat david
