Formatting Old HD

[SplitCo]

I have this old IBM HD and it has grub or something on it and i cant get it to do anything. I searched for commands and I found stuff about running FDISK but it said unreconized command and Im really lost Ive tried a 98 boot disk and it said non-system disk remove and hit any key to continue. I need help all I want is to get rid of whatever is on it and install windows 2000. Please help.

[Telexen]

try booting to either the Windows 2000 cd (may not be bootable) or to Windows 2000 bootdisks...there's a utility to partition/format as part of the installation.

[SplitCo]

Ive tried that and it doesnt do anything but just sit there and look stupid.

[Brainchild]

Are you sure the drive is good?and hte jumpers are set correctly. And are you positive the floppy is good.I have gotten the invalid system disk before with a faulty floppy drive,and with a bad HDD.

you could hook it up in a working system and format it.Just slave it to the main drive,and boot to windows,and select format from my computer if all else fails

[SplitCo]

The HD is good Ive seen it run on my friends pc thats where I got it from he didnt need it anymore and the jumpers are set correctly. I did try to set it up to my pc but it doesnt detect it.

[Telexen]

If your system doesn't detect it then something is wrong...

[SplitCo]

It detects it in the bios but when I open explorer its just not there.

[Omardeth]

sounds like the cable is bad or the jumper isn't right .

[SplitCo]

It working right because it comes up with grub on it.

[Telexen]

Are you running 2000 or XP on your system? if you are go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management ...see if the disk is shown there...you can format it from there also.