Hello,
     I just received a Quantam Bigfoot 1.2 GB hard disk drive.  The BIOS
detected the drive without any problems.  I tried to run FDISK on the drive
and at 2% of checking the drive integrity I got the message : Write Protect
Error Writing Fixed Disk.  FDISK shows the primary DOS partition to be
active so I went ahead and tried to format the drive.  When I tried to
format the drive I got the message : Invalid Media or Track 0 Bad - Disk
Unusuable.   I am using a Windows 95 boot disk to prepare the hard drive,
the same one I use when preparing all my hard drives.  The hard drive is
susposed to be new.  Is the disk bad?  I have never run into this problem
before.  Thanks for your help.

Jim Cook
Jim's Computer Systems

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