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March 27th, 2005 16:00

Hard drive problems

I was given a dell insoiron 5000 and it was running fine xcept the 6g hard drive was full. I deleted the partitions and tryed to reformat the drive to reinstall win 2000. it will not fornat it is telling me that the hard  drive is damged could this be possible seeing as it was working before deleatng patitions?
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    Posted March 27th, 2005 19:00

    Wipe the drive clean using the manufacturer's utility - while you're at it, run a full diagnostic on the drive, including a surface scan.
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    Posted March 28th, 2005 03:00

    Sounds good only thing is I do not have any of the original disks. any other ideas.
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    Posted March 28th, 2005 10:00

    You can download the test/wipe utility from the drive manufacturer. If you need to reinstall and don't have the OS CD, you'll need to purchase one.
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    Posted March 28th, 2005 11:00

    Thanks I 'll do that first chance I get

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