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I installed a Western Digital 20g 7200 RPM HD as a slave drive and am going to use it for DV editing. Problem is I brought it over from my other machine already partitioned into 2 10g sectors. I am using ME (No DOS?) so I used the WD tools disk to reformat this drive and to remove the partition. I am getting a "device error reading drive 2 absolue sector 39102335 count 1" in the WD tools menu and then it bails out of the reformat. In explorer, the drive still shows (both partitions) but windows says they are not formated and won't let me access them? I also tried to format them in windows and that didn't work.

Is my solution to run fdisk? and how do I run fdisk in ME? If not what is my solution? I do know the hd works because I used it right before this mess.

Thanks in advance

Is my solution to run fdisk?

Yep.

and how do I run fdisk in ME?

Can you get your hands on a Win98 Startup Disk? I've never used ME so I can only offer blind suggestions. See if you can create an ME startup disk through Control Panel > Add/remove programs. Alternatively, see if you can force an MS-DOS window by going the Start -> Run and typing "command". If that works then you can run fdisk from within Windows (just make sure you nuke the right disk )

http://www.bootdisk.com

Make a Windows 98 bootdisk and use that.

The ME bootdisk will work as well