I am probably going to get blasted for this, but my suggestion is a
low-level format.  This is a "last resort" for a dying hard drive, but (and
please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this) I believe a low-level
format will reserve bad blocks and make them unusable.  Hope this helps.

Kyle


>From: "Wayne@Tammy" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] laptop hard drive problem
>Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:08:05 -0400
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm working on a laptop for a friend right now, and his hard drive has a
>bad spot close to the beginning of the drive.  The drive FDisk's ok, but I
>can't format it.
>
>I partitioned it into a 50 MB C: drive, and a 1 GB D: drive, tried
>installing Windows 95 on D: , but Windows stalls during the install process
>because of problems on the first partition.
>
>Is there any way I can format the drive, and have it continue on past this
>error?, or get windows to ignore the first partition?  Yes, I realise the
>drive is dying, and that he should replace the drive,  but in the mean
>time, I'm looking for a fast fix.


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