Help Formatting an ESIA Drive on Workstation Precision 650

The Precision 650 supports IDE/ATA drives and maybe SCSI drives.

What do you mean with ESIA drive? Is this a brand? If so, what type of interface does it use?

Correction

Here is my SVC Tag can you I believe it to be an ESIA drive. Can you look it up and tell me what type of drive it is?

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Please edit your posts and remove your service tag, or the moderators may remove your post completely.

You can put the tag into the support.dell.com site and select to show the original configuration. Look for anything that looks like it could be the harddrive info, and copy and paste that into this thread.

Here is the info from the Dell site on my system.

Can you please tell me what type of Hard Drive these are and how I can format the boot drive.

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Type         Description

Disk Drives WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 111.7Gb  

               WDC WD20 00JB-00EVA0 SCSI Disk Device 186.3Gb

Those looks like standard ATA (EIDE) drives judging from this pdf.

Do you mean the EISA partition on the boot drive. This is formatted onto the disk during production and usually contains OEM Diagnostics. This partition is DOS but has no drive letter. I have always removed these partitions from my Dell systems and reformatted. As far as I am aware once removed there is no publicly available file or details of the process to recreate this partition. Although I suspect with the right knowledge it shouldn't be too difficult to do.

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I think that is the information I am looking for.

I used the scsi drivers on the windows disk, I was able to reformat the drive.

Everything is up and running now.

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