My windows 95 become not stable, I have to reintall it. I try to reformat c: drive, format started and then and after a while a message "trying to recover allocation unit" appears.This messagestayed for long time and after that a 1% portion is formatted, then again the same message appeared and anpther 1% is formated and so on. My drive is the primary partition with 2047 MB. If this process continue it will take very long time to complete this task. I delete all partitions thru fdisk and repartition the drive and format the primary partition c: again, the same problem persist. I have doubt that some of norton stuff do some permenanat change into those clusters, now how can I bypass this problem, Any body can Help?

Hi,

Unfortunately this message means your drive have physical defects. When format encounters bad block it tries to reread it for several times and this is very long process. The only you can do is wait. If after formating, those bad blocks would be stable and the number of them would not increase with time, you can live with them (perform thorough test with Scandisk periodicaly to check bad clusters). But if the number of bad clusters contantly increases you need to replace your hard drive.

Good luck, Igor M

Can you show me the proper way to reformat my hardisk and to re-install Windows95 and what are the patches needed?

Regards

I've the same format problem. My hard drive(Corner CFA1275A) is show "Trying to recover allocation unit....Not Ready....Format terminated' when I try to using command : Format C: /S/C

ok....i'm getting the same crap! but!!! i have a bit of an interesting twist...my computer was working fine....i had just installed Windows 2000....and my two harddrives were converted to NTFS...EVERYTHING WORKED BEAUTIFULLY, if anyone is thinking of upgrading...i say go for it....but i come home, and apparently my brother..."dropped it from 3 inches", whatever....now it doesn't see any of the system files to boot Windows 2000....so here's the fun part....THE FILE SYSTEM IS NTFS!!!! THAT'S RIGHT, NO SEEING ANY HARD DRIVES USING A BOOT DISK....so, i fdisked my older drive, (which had nothing on it, my new drive, has some important stuff, so i can't loose it), and now i am trying to format...and it gives me this BS!!! i would love to try this scandisk thing, but i don't think it is going to fly because the disk is a weird until you format it after an F-disk...please e-mail me, if anythoughts....i tried format /U (that's unconditional), and it still gave me the errors, but i didn't give it a chance to go all the way through so maybe it won't abort in the end....we'll try! AGAIN! please e-mail me if anything new is found.... liquidtempo@myhost.com

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