formating a hard drive

nightkid · Post by **nightkid** » 23 Oct 2009, 16:26

i have a hard drive that i'm dual booting and i want to format it. The tool i've always used is called Disk Kill but when i try to boot it i get something along the lines of fatblockerror 0000.x07, it will scroll increasing the last digit
if i start my box i can select bt4 or windows 7 and they both boot how they should. Any suggestions for completing wiping out this drive?

Post by **floodhound2** » 23 Oct 2009, 19:35

You might use the operating system disk to format it. Try using windows or Linux. You can also format it while running windows. Just turn off power to PC, plug it in to computer, make sure its a slave drive unless it serial then you might not have to, reboot windows and right click format. Of course depending on the file system windows might not recognize the disk drive. If so use windows 7 disk tool.

nightkid · Post by **nightkid** » 24 Oct 2009, 00:02

yeah i was using windows 7...i have found a bug i think.
after getting that error so long.
i used a back up of windows xp professional
popped it in and it formatted it how it should and now im using xp on it

Post by **bad_brain** » 24 Oct 2009, 04:09

the best tool to manipulate HDDs is the Gparted live CD imo:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
it's Linux based but can handle all MS filesystem types too, I even resized a NTFS partition successfully with it already...