Download the Low Level Format utility from Seagate and give that a shot. If
there's something in the drive causing those errors, it'll be wiped out when
you low level format.

HTH

Jose


The Doc wrote:

> ...........cut..................
>
> Before he installed the Caviar, he was just using the 4.2 Seagate with Win
> 95 OSR2. He had a hard drive crash, and stated that he was having trouble
> reformatting it.  .........cut...............Using either PartitionMagic or
> Win94 Fdisk, we can Partiton the hard drive easily.  However with either
> PartitionMagic or Win95 format (even from a

> Win95 bootable floppy), we get error message as soon as format starts:
>
> Wrong media or Track 0 bad.
>
> Any suggestions on which way to go from here?
>