-> -> 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. 
 
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