I agree...it's toast.  I've seen this happen on 3 Western Digital hard
drives.  And, I too, repartitioned and formatted several times to no
avail.

Byron
Bob Wright wrote:

> At 01:52 PM 2/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >I'm trying to format a West. Digital small
> > (around 600 mb)drive and when I get up to
> > 90% or so it stops and says:
> >"trying to recover allocation unit"
> > then counts up from 37,835 or so and them
> > aborts format. I've done it about 5 times.
> >
> > Is this drive dead?
>
> I would try removing and installing a new partion
> on the drive.  Then try formatting again.  If you
> get the same results...  the drive is toast!
>
>   Bob
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