-> -> -> It should be Doable. You need to go to the Hard Drive manufacturer 
-> -> -> support site and download their maintenance and troubleshooting 
-> -> -> software. There sould be a routing so you can
"Zero" out the Hard Drive 
-> -> -> and start over.  
-> -> -> If that OEM CD is a restore disk I donm't thin kyou can
get arroung the 
-> -> -> FDISK problem. Because the FDISK o nthe Win98 CD is the
oldr versions 
-> -> -> that dosen't see drives larger then 64 gig. 
->  
-> -> Nothing currently sees the drive but I'm keeping it just to slave 
-> -> to n new drive to be purchased next month 
-> -> where I will try the Western Digital utility. 
->  
-> Interesting the files are on   www.westerndigital.com     :-)  :-) 
-> There are two programs I am thinking about BUT I don't recal lwhich one 
-> "ZEros" out(I REFUSE to call it Low Level formatting
because it is i nNO 
-> was related to the LLF of days past and Gibsons Spin Rite) 
-> But the two file names you are after are Data Lifeguard Install and the 
-> WD diagnostics. 

Yeah I know it isn't a true LLF and I know it's called Data Lifeguard.
Too bad it's too big to load into a floppy drive diskette.
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