Format on a older drive is a no go

[Airmack]

I have a WD drive that I have here that I need for a Novell class at school.

I got it from a old computer from RoadRunner and was told that I would have to format it if I ever wanted to use it.

Well the drive is 4304.2MB so around 4.1GIG which is fine but I cant get it to format.

I put it on my XP pro pc and it would not even load the bootdisk or cd even when I had the boot setting to go from cd, floppy, HD.

So I put it on my XP home pc and I can at least boot from the floppy but when I get to a: and type format c: it says it failed.

I did look around on the floppy and it told me that c: does not have a valid fat or fat32 partition.

Any ideas???

[glc]

Download the WD Data Lifeguard Tools and zero fill the drive. That will wipe everything, then you can prep it for Novell as usual.

[Blakhart]

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[Airmack]

the lieguard tools said i had to HD connected.

I did end up getting it formatted with a eval copy of 200 server