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Hard Drive help needed .... Please ...

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beb

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Hi,
Got a problem formating my hard drive. It is a Western Digital 4.3 gig drive. I was getting it ready to sell..ie formating, etc. I had it partitioned into two drives c and d. I fdisked it, deleting all partitions then repartitioned it into just one drive. Shut of machine, restarted and started formating....finished format and started to write the file allocation table (fat) got 84% of the way through doing that and got a "error writing fat" message. I have retried several times and it always stops at the same place.
The drive was working perfectly before I started this. I had run scandisk on it and it found no bad sectors. As I was fdisking and formating it checked the intergrity of the drive several times and found no problems.

Can anyone give a dumb old man a clue to what's wrong.
Thanks in advance, Ben
 
hmm
sorry im not sure what the problem may be
but you may try to put the drive in a second computer and try formatting from within the os.

hope this helps

imhotepMP
 
Also I'm fdisking and formating from a win98 startup disk...when i look in fdisk to see the partitions it shows all info but says "unknown" os.

Anyone else have some ideas
 
Check drive with mfg's drive integrity utility, and if it's OK use the utility to also do a pseudo-low level format. Then proceed with partitioning and format.
 
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