Re: The Magical Ghost Partition

When I tuned to 30kHz, I received Claus Dragon:
> While forming in a straight line, Polychromic wrote:
<snip>
>>Unless they are SCSI, low-level formatting is not physically possible.
>>The closest you can get is to use the vendor's drive wiping tool.
> 
> really? i think i remember an old ami bios having the option to format
> the hard disk ... that is what i was referring at. messed it up with
> the scsi low-level format, though ....

Most new SCSI drives don't require such format.  But you can do it just to
wipe out the stuff.  I doubt a Packard Bell PC would use SCSI.

My 1st suggestion for erimess is use fdisk and see if there is a logical
drive or some such and delete that one.  It sounds like her computer was
set up for backup stuff or a RAID configuration gone completely wrong.
(could it because Win95 thought the outdated Packard Bell onboard IDE
controller to be RAID compliant?)

Go to device manager and see if the disk controller has a wrong driver
installed by Win95.

Hope that helps.

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