There is a known problem with this drive. You can check the Microsoft Knowledge
Base. But what you will need to do is contact Quantum. They have a listing for
an 800 # where you can call and get more info. The problem is in the Bios for
the Drive itself, and you can download a program from their BBS that will flash
it to correct the problem. You could probably FDISK this with DOS 6.22, but you
will still need the Bios flash in order to run Win9x correctly. One of the
symtoms is an error initializing I/O device when trying to run Win9x.

Good Luck  Steve Wolfe...

Jim Cook wrote:

> 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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