ive been having prob.with formating h.d.The format goes to recording bad sec. then quits at 11% and tells me not enough mem. i have a 1083 mb hd and 48meg of mem. I ran nortons rescue floppy program and it says my f.a.t has 2 tables but it doesnt fix my prob. it tells me that the h.d. is still usable,and that a low level format will fix my prob. i have a western digital h.d.and when i went to the site the file i downloaded wouldnt fit on a floppy? seem to me i ran western,s wright 0,s to drive on another h.d.a couple years ago and all that program did is found a error,so that they want to recover your data for me for just a small fee of 250 0f three hundred dollars!!what morrons.So does any one know of any other non western d. Programs that would llformat my h.d. Becides format /u <---- this dont work!! so thanks any way. scandisk gets to the third line,then stops.

lots of hits when i put "low level format " in google

Go back to a bare drive. Run fdisk /mbr Run fdisk Select 3, and delete all the partitions Select 1, create primary, let it use the whole disk and make it active. Reboot, and format. Should solve the problems. A low level format is rarely, if ever, necessary, and can cause more problems than it's capable of fixing. Good luck, Chase

What does the fdisk /mbr do?

hey Motion fdisk /MBR seems to do nothing when i press enter it just goes back to the command prompt,in my case the a: [ prompt ] when i fdisk ,& delete partions and create one main partion ,then when i reboot i type in fdisk/status and every thing looks ok. i run fdisk choose yes then choose #4 to look at what i created every thing looks ok except the fat,says system unknown.right now i have EZbios or something like that on the disk to keep the fat32,partion to be reconized. thanks for the responce. {mo}

Fdisk /mbr restores the 'Master Boot Record' which is need to boot from the drive.

type fdisk and that is it nothing else he does not know what he is talking about!!