Hello Wayne ! 
 
 ->         I was going to suggest a PRG that I use at times, called
 ->   BAKTRAK, it also zeroes in all tracks/sectors. But if the HD is not
 ->   even seen on your system, you can not address it with any CLI.

        I had this occured to me once, Wayne, on a system that Jim
  provided for me. Ran very well then I did something funny to a HD.
  The only way that I could recoup it was by making it Slave on
  another system and running the gammut of test on it. I even thought
  that the IDE-0 was dead on the MoBo. BAKTRAK cleaned all for me and
  I was able to reload XP Pro on it.

 WC> BTW you sig line says you won't be without a OLR but it looks
 WC> like you switched to one that's not year 2k compliant.
 WC> Two of your posts to me had a numeral preceeding the W in Wayne,
 WC> a known defect of BlueWave without the fix applied to it.

        No editor is subject to this W2K bug. Bluewave is and I was
  resetting a system here and forgot to install Dale S.'s fine
  corrector for this W2K thingie. You will not see this anymore. I did
  not pay attention to it and I was some put off when I also saw then
  applying the leading numeral to the To: names. Too late, the .rep
  was gone.


 I would not be without an OLMR.
 
    
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