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Is this HD just messed up?

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Okay so Im trying to fix this laptop we have at work. After running FDISK then booting back up I try format the HD. But it stops then this happens " trying to recover allocation units blah blah " it just sits there forever. Is the HD just messed up or am I doing something wrong?
 
Okay so I tried to use debug heheh... Im absolutely clueless on what to do with. if its not to complicated would you be able to explain a little more?
Thanks for any help.
 

Normal format checks over errors and tries to mark bad sectors and such, and sometimes stops if too many are found. Unconditional format disregards any bad sectors that are found and just tries to keep pushing on.

Looks like your drive might have hardware trouble or physical damage, IE bad sectors. And if no one's told you, you can't repair bad sectors. If you ever get it formatted, do a surface scan with Scandisk, and if bad sectors come up, the drive's crashed and gone farming (reference to when the drive heads start plowing little throughs on the surface). Or, while formatting, if you see messages about trying to recover allocation units, the same thing applies.
 


<< Or, while formatting, if you see messages about trying to recover allocation units, the same thing applies >>



That is what I see....guess I will just give up...
 
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