Would like to know the make and model of the hard drive that escapes your
previous posts, and this one as well.

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Jonny
<jimkunz@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all. I was only able to find one topic on this issue on the
> newsgroups.. and I'm kind of hoping to find a solution rather than the
> workaround of just replacing the drive.
>
> As the subject states, XP SP2 install CD goes black and hangs right
> before setup begins - after the initial quick hardware scan. Another
> thread narrowed this down to some kind of partition hard drive error,
> and they are correct. I put in a different hard drive and the install
> began fine - but I need it to work on the other hard drive.
>
> My question.. with no floppy drive on the computer, how can I 100%
> reset a hard drive back to square one? The drive works fine in other
> computers as long as it's not the main drive. I deleted the only
> partition from inside XP's admin tools on a second computer, created a
> new partition using the full 120GB and formatted the drive NTFS - no
> luck - XP install still hangs in the same place. So I figure there
> must be something one step up above what I tried - I just don't know
> what that is. Can anyone please help me to completely wipe this drive
> and start fresh? Most apps I've seen mentioned say to boot off a
> floppy to run them, but that's not an option for me.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jim
>