Hello, Jean.
-=> on 02-25-05 16:22, JEAN PARROT wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 JP>         Hello Jim !   Nice to see you again.

Brr.  Good to be back.

 JP>   . . ..  I have a solution but I do not know if Wayne C.
 JP>   can use it. I was trying to make an image here and the process
 JP>   aboted with the same result...dead HD.

 JP>         I have this new Thinkpad with 4 USB ports and they are seen in
 JP>   the BIOS, when starting from an ERD. I was able to FDISK the dead HD
 JP>   connected to the USB to FAT 32. Before, I would have to instal the
 JP>   dead drive in a system as Master on IDE 0 and the FDISK always saw
 JP>   it. Now why is Wayne C.'s HD not visible to FDISK in this same
 JP>   circumstances ?

BIR, Wayne has USB ports on his mainboard, but your solution would not
work for him as he has no external HDD enclosure, and no USB cables.

- - -  JimH.

... "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." - - Proverbs
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