>If two drives in the same system have the same noise, I'd look a lot deeper...
>I'd try BOTH drives in other systems to see what happened...

I will try that _and_ Zap. Thank you.

>I have stopped (cancelled) installs of WinXP-PRO and then had boot failures
>and found the drive un-installable when trying to start over... ZAP
>clears that right up...

Hmmm... That's interesting.

When I first received this computer, I booted onto a floppy, ran
FDISK and partitioned the HDD. This worked fine. Disk integrity check
checked out.

It was only when I first went to install Win98 that it failed. 5%
into the format, the drive stopped responding. After that, the noise
occurred.

Is it possible differing versions of FDISK can cause this?

Cheers,

Mike Whalen

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