Startup problems, Hard drive

[uber]

How do I wipe a Western Digital hard drive from the out side?

I deleted sp2 and the computer wont boot up without a blue screen, it doesnt read the sp disk, and when it does it says PCI.SYS corrupted.

 

[H4x3r]

you need to be more clear....what do you mean "from the outside"?

 

[uber]

Like, is there a button I can press.... or do i have to send it in? I can't acess it because the formatting always closes itself when I try because pci.sys is corupted.

 

[H4x3r]

are you trying to format from DOS using the format C: command? and using fdisk? and...no there is no button

 

[uber]

When I start up my computer, it goes through post, bios, then it loads windows. right after that it crashes with a bluescreen with something like c0021a on it or somtin like that. I tried all the safe modes, they didnt work.

 

[H4x3r]

so you are wanting to format your hard drive...the western digital...is it the boot drive or the slave...which partition are you having trouble with and want to format?

 

[uber]

Its the slave I think, the non working cdrom drive is the master. I dont know how to change that setting or what it would do. I tried changing the hard drive jumper, for some reason its glued in place.

 

[H4x3r]

okay...do you know it's drive letter.......

and am i getting this strait..and all u need to do is format the drive...?

 

[uber]

The drive is c.

Yes. It just won't read the XP disk when I put it in, and when it does read it, its loading up and it says PCI.SYS is corrupted, then it reboots itself, and refuses to read the disk again.

 

[H4x3r]

okay...so to format the drive..you'll need a boot disk ...insert the boot disk into the floppy drive and it should boot up and go to a DOS prompt....then in the DOS prompt type Format C: then hit Y for yes and it should format....