9 Feb
1999
9 Feb
'99
2:05 a.m.
A similar subject came up in a local newsgroup here a few weeks ago. I have
attached one message below that might be of interest.
Forwarded message:
-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Speed <rodspeed(a)ozemail.com.au>
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Date: Saturday, 23 January 1999 19:58
Subject: Re: FDISK-Write protect error
You done
exactly right on everything except LLF which is big NO
No on modern drives, potientially losing it!
I wish just for once that someone would actually cite a specific drive
model for which this is true. I've LLF'd many of them with no ill
effects.
Joseph Henle <jhen(a)mailzone.com> wrote in message
news:78bhko$s73$1@east42.supernews.com...
> I am trying to fdisk a hard drive which indicated there is a non dos
> partition. When I try to fdisk i get " write protect error writting
fixed
> disk" I have also tried fdisk/mbr and i get
same message. Any
suggestions?
Probably best to completely clean out the first physical sector on the
hard drive and the first few tracks and start again from scratch with
fdisk.
Fdisk can get rather confused in some situations and
thats the easy fix.
The simplest way to do this is to use clearhdd from
http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/faqs/faq_view.cgi?no=99&kno=3
Note that this claims its a low level format utility.
It isnt, all it does is write zeros in the first few
tracks. It just describes what it does rather poorly.