HELP:my mediabyte 's like dynamite and bites me by dying

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From: D.F. Maat
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 00:00

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Here's the deal:
a 850meg HD (Quantum) has crashed,
scandisk says that the mediabyte is corrupt
Fdisk says that my hd is write protected
Format(dos) says it can't write my boot sector
Norton disk doctor says that i fucked up.

however, bios detects the drive correct.

Question: Can I

- replace the corrupted mediabyte by a new one
with DEBUG or something, and if so, what is the value of the byte.
- Are there utils to fix this problem and if so, where do i find these
- I once saw someone use the /MBR flag with FORMAT to format
the master boot record. win95 FORMAT doesn't support this.
which FORMAT does, and will this work?
- Will a Lowlevel format work(not available in my BIOS)
- is norton diskdoctor right after all?

PLEASE help me
thanks
Dirk@Maat.demon.nl

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From: "D.F. Maat" <Dirk@Maat.demon.nl>
Subject: HELP:my mediabyte 's like dynamite and bites me by dying
Date: 1998/04/04
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