The BIOS seems alright, the harddisk itself may have bad sectors or at least
becoming weak overtimes. I would use FDISK to delete partition, and start
from nothing.
I did see some hard drives create lot of problems when they are going to
die. If the harddrive is nearly "die", you may need to replace it as soon as
possible, otherwise you may run in more problems. This is especialy true in
business situation. I don't hope you learn this in hard way, as I did
before.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Barnhart" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Formatting problems


> Can any of you tell me if my Bios auto detected my hard drive correctly..?
>
> This is written on the hard drive itself:
> (CHS) 16,383  Cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors
>         40079088 addressible sectors
>
> This is what was autodetected in my bios:
> Capacity   20521
> Cylinder   39761
> Head   16
> Precomp   0
> Landing Zone   39760
> Sector   63
>
> I'm running the KA7-100 motherboard by the way.. with a 900 MHz AMD
Athlon..
>
> Is all that correct? I tried formatting tonight and it got 1% complete
then
> just went off on it's usual, "Trying to recover allocation unit  ##,###".
It
> started at 0 obviosuly, then made it's way all the way up to "Tying to
> recover allocation unit  30,000+".. I've gathered I shouldn't get this
> message so I terminated the format with a ctrl alt del..

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