TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JIM HOLSONBACK:

-> Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM disc. It
-> appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB, and in the Win98
-> installation process, somehow, Windows FDISK was run.  Win98FE has a
-> problem with HDD>64MB, and it appears that the damn thing wrapped-around
-> the HDD addressing, overwriting his MBR.  He now says that the HDD is
-> dead beyond any recovery, can't be FDISKed or even recognized in his
-> system.


 TW> It should be Doable. Yuo need to go to the Hard Drive manfactores
 TW> support site and download their maintenance and troubleshooting
 TW> software. There sould be a routing so you can "Zero" out the Hard
 TW> Drive and start over.

Don't need a mfr's utility if all you wanna do is "zero it out", 
just fire up tomsrtbt,  and then at a command prompt give it:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda (or whatever drive it is) bs=1024 count=whatever...


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