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by ameliapumo

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I tried to do a new installation on a h/D but found errors. Using format command will take 200 hours. recommend format prog please!!

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by sgt_shultz

you don't mention what errors, what model drive, interface, what size etc etc. but 200 hours doesn't sound right...check your installation configuration. try new cable. if scsi, check terminiation. download and run diagnostics from hard drive mfg.

by ameliapumo

fujitsu 10GB Hard Drive. I was given drive to use as spare. At present I have put in spare machine and booted using boot disk for wi 98. Runnung format c:. After 3 hours it says "formatting 9,750.35 M
Trying to recover allocation unit 1,124,393
the latter figure keeps increasing. An hour ago it said 953,500. For a start, I don't know what the latter figure is, KN, MB ??

by djent

sounds like a hardware problem, connections or maybe the drive is toasted. Try it in a different machine.

by ann777

"Trying to recover allocation unit 1,124,393" means that the hdd is bad. It is trying to read from a spot that cannot be read. You are probably hearing repetitive sounds and the heads move back and try to re-read the sectors that are damaged. This is called a hdd crash. Replace your hdd.

The format program is fine. It won't take that long to format even a 200 GB hdd. But your drive is bad and it cannot be formatted.

by ann777

Incidentally, the "formatting 9,750.35 M" does not means anything. You'll see these strange formatting messages while DOS formatting any drive greater than GB in size. The drive will format up to 32 GB fine (Win98), anything larger and you should use fdisk and partition the drive into 32 maximum chunks.

by wcp

Do a hard drive (HD) diagnostic test.

If it passes, do a low level format (or write zero) and you should be able to do FDISK and regular formatting without any problem.

If it fails, you need to replace it.

Go to the following website

http://tinyurl.com/co6a

and download fjdt_6.exe for diagnosis and clean.zip for low level format.

Make a bootable floppy and copy fjdt_6.exe and fjerase.exe (after unzipping clean.zip) to the floppy.

Boot the computer from floppy and run diagnosis by typing fjdt_6 and pressing enter key.
If the HD passes comprehensive test, do low level format by typing fjerase and pressing enter key.

Post a comment if you need more information.

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