Five out of five Bigfoot 2.5GB drives that I have installed this fall
have failed. Based on my experience I will say you have a bad drive.

Jim Cook wrote:
>
> 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
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