error: bad file record signature

[troy0]

I'm running a Windows 2000 Professional machine. Already has two hard disks and I decided to throw in an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 60gb hdd. Apparently the drive, according to the PartitionMagic 5.0 Rescue disk set I use, has a bad file record signature. It tells me to fix it I should run chkdsk /f so I ran that and it couldn't get access to the drive hence it could not run.

I have tried formatting it through Windows both long and short types (get "Windows can't complete format" error), through PartitionMagic and the drive is still not accessible. Anyone have any ideas or have had experiences with this?

I've never did low level formatting but from what I have heard that just cleans a disk totally so absolutly no data can be saved after that if I ran that could that fix the error?

-troy0

 

[dakota81]

I would try formatting the drive without partition magic. Go to a command prompt and run fdisk. If fdisk does not report the correct size of the drive (~60gig), then you are going to need to get a patched version of fdisk from Microsoft - there is a size limitation at roughly 32gig and I know that fdisk under 2000 needed a patch to correctly recognize larger drives.

I first found the link by searching through Western Digital's site because we were having troubles setting up a 100gig WD driver. A patch is out there on Microsoft's site, but I cannot provide a quick link.