I assume this is a EIDE or IDE drive. You probably have a corrupted boot
sector or partition table which can be cured with a low level format.
Western Digital has a utility that will low level format the drive and
analyze it for errors. Actually all hard drive manufactures have similar
utilities for their drives. Check WD's web page....I belive the file is
called WD_diag.exe.

Mark
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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?
> TIA;
>
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