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	disk wiping Nov 23^rd, 2009 at 10:41am i have used gdisk from ghost 2003 cd for years. today i tried to wipe a sata drive. no go. no error message. suggestions ? thank you.
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Re: disk wiping
Reply #1 - Nov 25^th, 2009 at 2:09am

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Are you attempting to use *gdisk.exe* after booting to DOS?

Or, are you using the Windows based *gdisk32.exe* from within Windows?

When you boot to DOS and attempt to use a pure DOS based utility such as *gdisk.exe*, you might have to change a setting in the BIOS that effects whether the BIOS supports DOS access to a SATA HDD. It's usually under a section that has to do with options for selecting the SATA controller *mode*--the DOS mode is often listed as *combined*, *combination*, or *compatibility* mode as opposed to *Native* SATA mode.

Depending on what you want after accessing the HDD in DOS and doing the wiping, if you plan on installing Windows--you might want to change the *mode* back to *Native*--it's apparently *optimized* to make things run faster in Windows--but doesn't allow access using old style DOS.

Any help?

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