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 Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html