How can it be? Corrupted after LLF?

[Neomega]

I low level formatted my hard drive. Wrote zeros to it with Western Digital's WDDIAG.exe.

It tested as clean. Yet I still cannot format it to NT. I cannot format it at all... It is still saying it is corrupt!

I know the 2000 install cd is ok because I just installed it on another computer

It cannot be a BIOS incompatibility, because it ran at one time Win 98 just fine.

 

[Turner]

Do you have another FAT32 OS you can install? Once the partition is created, try loading 2k, and delete that partition. Then see if you can format it NTFS.

I used to do something simular to yours at work, and then I realized (read: Someone told me) that deleting the partition is as good as low level formatting. Quicker, too.

 

[IglooDame]

You might need to FDisk the drive and create a partition before you format; most of the MS operating systems' install routines want to see a partition before they format and install the OS from CD.

 

[Comraddict]

yep, you have to
1. make primary dos partition (FDISK)
2. make it active (FDISK)
3. format under FAT32 ( format C: )