Re: [Thinkpad] HD failure ?

I had a similar problem. Only that was a removable disk, which made it
easier. Maybe you can hook up your disk as secondary?
I solved it using Disk Management (in the Storage section of Computer
Management in the control panel Administrative Tools in WinXP. Similar
for NT4 and 2000.) Right-click the partitions/logical drives and delete
them one at a time. Then you can reformat and create a new partition on
the entire disk, or split it up as you wish.

Best, Mads

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Hi all, 
I'm trying to fix a friend's HD, a 32gb 5400 rpm drive on a A21p. 
I've tried IBM's restore CD, but the restore program can't format the
HD. It 
can't even repartition it. 
I plugged the drive into my Thinkpad and tried Partition Magic, but it 
displays the whole HD as "BAD" and refuses to have anything to do with
it. I 
formated the three existing partitions on the HD (through Windows), to
no 
avail. 
CHKDSK says the HD is fine, so does Windows (2k), but I can't find a way
to 
delete the 3 partitions and reformat the whole thing in order to start
the 
restore process. 
Partition Magic displays this message : "Disk 2 (30524MB 3890c 255h 
63s)appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry 
(240h 63s). No partition manipulation should be made to this disk using
this 
product or the operating system's product. Delete all partitions and
create 
new partition under the new drive geometry" 
But PM refuses to do anything with the drive ! 
Is the HD dead ? I have a feeling I'm missing something here. 
Thanks for any help. 
sylvestre 
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