formatting hard drive problems

[Sgt Pepper]

My sister's computer is on the fritz and I can't seem to figure it out. I had her fdisk the computer to start from scratch but she's having a problem formatting it. Everytime she format's the hard drive she is presented with the following line:

Trying to recover allocation units

And after that is a number around 15000 I believe that slowly increases. I figured it was just a problem with the partition table so I had her fdisk it but its not working. Any suggestions?

 

[DaddyG]

have her completely delete the partition and redefine it with FDISK, then do the format.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

I tried that but it didn't seem to work. Do you need to delete the partitions then restart before I create the new partitions?

 

[IamDavid]

Sounds to me like a bad HD. I had the same problem. I had bad sectors.

 

[LordSandMan]

Ya, I agree with IamDavid. Sounds like a bad HD

 

[AngelOfDeath]

<< Do you need to delete the partitions then restart before I create the new partitions? >>

No not neccesarily, but it's always easier to redo the partitions if all is clear/deleted. I personally always redo the partitions when I do the Fdisk-thingy.

AoD

 

[Sgt Pepper]

I think it probably went bad also.
If there are bad sectors is it possible to repair them?

 

[jinsonxu]

Usually bad sectors tend to multiply like crazy. At least, mine did. is it still under warrenty?

 

[Yzzim]

Run scandisk and see what's up with the hard drive

 

[LordSandMan]

If you have bad sectors I wouldn't trust the drive.