Hard Drive

[Richard]

I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk.
Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing
partition,pressed y, 4>512M) asked the ? do you want to
boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to
Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have
a black screen w/white sentences and prompt),checking disk
space,etc. Began to Format then stopped a point and says:
Formatting 9,781.73M(10G HDD)and below this on next line
says: Trying to Recover Allocation Unit 12,762. Is my disk
being formatted? Is looking for this allocation
unit,foregoing any format. The curser is blinking and the
computer light is no longer pulsing. I sense that it
stopped. Do I start over? What is this recover allocation
unit?

[SFB - KB3MM]

Maybe you should start by booting from the startup floppy and running
scandisk from i including thorough mode to test the surface.

"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk.
> Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing
> partition,pressed y, 4>512M) asked the ? do you want to
> boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to
> Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have
> a black screen w/white sentences and prompt),checking disk
> space,etc. Began to Format then stopped a point and says:
> Formatting 9,781.73M(10G HDD)and below this on next line
> says: Trying to Recover Allocation Unit 12,762. Is my disk
> being formatted? Is looking for this allocation
> unit,foregoing any format. The curser is blinking and the
> computer light is no longer pulsing. I sense that it
> stopped. Do I start over? What is this recover allocation
> unit?

[Jeff Richards]

The hard disk drive appears to be faulty. Get some diagnostic software from
the www site of the disk drive manufacturer and give it a thorough test.
That should enable you to pinpoint the problem.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Richard" > wrote in message
...
>I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk.
> Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing
> partition,pressed y, 4>512M) asked the ? do you want to
> boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to
> Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have
> a black screen w/white sentences and prompt),checking disk
> space,etc. Began to Format then stopped a point and says:
> Formatting 9,781.73M(10G HDD)and below this on next line
> says: Trying to Recover Allocation Unit 12,762. Is my disk
> being formatted? Is looking for this allocation
> unit,foregoing any format. The curser is blinking and the
> computer light is no longer pulsing. I sense that it
> stopped. Do I start over? What is this recover allocation
> unit?

[Jeff Richards]

Scandisk will not run on an unformatted drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SFB - KB3MM" > wrote in message
...
> Maybe you should start by booting from the startup floppy and running
> scandisk from i including thorough mode to test the surface.

[SFB - KB3MM]

Small detail <vbg>. Realized that as I posted the message.

His alternative is the mfgr diagnostics.

"Jeff Richards" > wrote in message
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> Scandisk will not run on an unformatted drive.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "SFB - KB3MM" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Maybe you should start by booting from the startup floppy and running
> > scandisk from i including thorough mode to test the surface.
>
>