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 > [log in to unmask] > > Need help with PCBUILD: > [log in to unmask] or http://nospin.com Need help with PCBUILD: [log in to unmask] or http://nospin.com