There is something wrong in your statements of what you tried. There is
no Win2k boot disk that would allow you to format a hard drive. You
would have to do it during the Win2k installation process from the CD.
Don't use Win95 boot disks and utilities to prepare the drive for a
Win2k system. Just start the Win2k install, delete the existing
partition when you get to that point, and then create the partitions as
needed. The install routine will format the install partition in the
format you choose - preferably NTFS. Of course, you may still have a
hardware problem, but what you described doing did not make sense.

Peter
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My older machine would not boot and could not fix it through the usual
means that "I" know how to do so decided to just redo it all together it
is a 200 mmx with 64 mb of ram running win 2k ntfs file sys. used a
program called delpart exe to help delete partions as had heard these
partions are hard to delete. then did f disk and made 1 primary portion
of 2 gb the size of hard drive. All went well until tried to format C:
after reboot. Formatting started ok then got message "trying to recover
allocation units" then formatting started again then message came back,
Then is said "format terminated" Have tried using 95 boot disk and w 2k
boot disk to format C: with no luck .  ? Does this sound like hard drive
problem or am I doing something wrong???

Thanks
Rick Baggett

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