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HELP can't format laptop

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millsy

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I have a laptop to rebuild, so booted with the W98 boot disk and loaded the CDROM drivers okay. I then used the FDISK command to get rid of the small partitions that were setup and that worked fine.
rebooted and attempted to format the C drive. I had the put in a MSDOS disk to use the format.com command and it kept saying 'incorrect DOS version'. I then booted with the MSDOS disk in and let the setup format the C partition for me. It started okay but stops at 93% and you can hear it make funny noise like its trying to access the drive. I even tryed with the NT setup and it also stops at 92%. I am completely stuck on what to do now. Someone please help.
 
Sounds like you're the victim of finnicky laptop harddrives... Try and get a hold of a low-level format program and do a low-level format on the drive..
You can try and make the partition in fdisk a little smaller than the entire disk so that you avoid the seemingly pad part of the disk.. Ex. If you have a 10GB disk the make the partition 8GB and format that..

/Blaznee
 
I was using the MSDOS 6.22 disk and tryed the 5 and it is currently 'recovering allocation units'. Seems the low level format is working.
Cheers for the help.
 
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