4 gig in bad sectors?

[sMashPiranha]

Just thought I'd share this with you all )

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C:\WINDOWS>format a: /s
Insert new diskette for drive A:
and press ENTER when ready...

Checking existing disk format.
Verifying 1.44M
Disk unsuitable for system disk.
Format complete.

Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

1,457,664 bytes total disk space
386,560 bytes used by system
4,294,589,952 bytes in bad sectors
1,448,448 bytes available on disk

512 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,829 allocation units available on disk.

Volume Serial Number is 075A-13DF

Format another (Y/N)?

 

[bandXtrb]

I thought you had a really screwed up hard disk.

 

[jaydee]

Is that even possible? Did you do this on purpose?

 

[sMashPiranha]

Its all real, I was trying to make a boot disk to flash my bios.

 

[hairygit]

Sure you didn't go:
format c: by a mistake???????
If you got a tiny HD, then this is what happened.
If you booted up after, I am wrong.
sorry

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Take the disk and throw it in the garbage cause it's obviously bad.

 

[sMashPiranha]

Umm, well yeah, when my computer says that a 1.44 MB disk has 4 GB in bad sectors I guess somethings probably wrong with it.