• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Bad Sectors stop format process anything to do about it?

J

jyates

Diamond Member
Hi All,

I've got a couple of laptop hard drives that I can fdisk and then they get a ways into the format process and it comes
up with the "reclaiming allocation units" and slows down and finally will say "format terminated" The bad spots are 12%
into the drives so it's not like I can make a 98% partition and let the other 2% bad go....


Is there anything that I can do to be able to get the drives formatted? I've got spinrite but it won't touch the drives
probably because they aren't formatted!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.....

Jim
 
I used a program to "erase" or it may be what they call a "low level format" which writes 0's to the entire drive and you have to come back and fdisk it again and it didn't make any difference either in the formatting process. I had thought the drives were trash but I hated to throw them away without asking questions. They are only 2.1gb but they would have worked great in an older laptop.....🙂

Thanks!
Jim
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top