Download the Low Level Format utility from Seagate and give that a shot. If
there's something in the drive causing those errors, it'll be wiped out when
you low level format.
HTH
Jose
The Doc wrote:
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>
> Before he installed the Caviar, he was just using the 4.2 Seagate with Win
> 95 OSR2. He had a hard drive crash, and stated that he was having trouble
> reformatting it. .........cut...............Using either PartitionMagic or
> Win94 Fdisk, we can Partiton the hard drive easily. However with either
> PartitionMagic or Win95 format (even from a
> Win95 bootable floppy), we get error message as soon as format starts:
>
> Wrong media or Track 0 bad.
>
> Any suggestions on which way to go from here?
>