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help reformat HD
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Original Message
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Name: Mac
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:11:32 Pacific
Subject: help reformat HD |
Comment: i was reformatting my hard drive and everytime i try to do it only goes up to 32% and says "trying to recover allocation unit 410,035" and stops responding. i disabled ativirus in the bios and put halt on no errors in the bios. can anyone help me. ps:i dont know if this has to do with anything but my hardrive is connected into the primary ATA 100 slot and not the primary IDE slot
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Response Number 1
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Name: John
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:17:02 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Toggle F8 ( when , verifying DMA pool message comes on ) or Press
Ctrl during bootup , depends on your computor , choose Command prompt
only ( NOT Safe mode Command prompt ), then at the C: prompt , type Scandisk /all & press Enter .
When finished , type win & press Enter .
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Response Number 2
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Name: boojum
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:32:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If that doesn't work then you have an unrecoverable hard drive and probably need to get a new one. You could try a "low-level" or write zeros utility. Go to the website of your hard drive's manufacturer, support/downloads, and download this problem to make a bootable floppy. This often works.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Sterling_Aug
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:32:20 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hey John: What does what you say have to do with reformatting a hard drive? You are bypassing the startup files (F*) then running scandisk (which is a good thing to do normally) and then typing win (which starts up Windows which is not even loaded yet).
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Response Number 4
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Name: Sterling_Aug
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:32:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hey John: What does what you say have to do with reformatting a hard drive? You are bypassing the startup files (F8) then running scandisk (which is a good thing to do normally) and then typing win (which starts up Windows which is not even loaded yet).
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Response Number 5
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Name: Curious
Date: July 6, 2002 at 03:19:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hey Sterling_Aug, What you on??? Can I have sum???
what he is saying is VERY consistent with formatting a HDD that has developed "Bad Sectors"..................... The drive is not even formatted, SO, I ask, HOW CAN HE BYPASS STARTUP FILES AND START 'WIN'???
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