This message does in fact mean that something is wrong. The format program
has found bad sectors and has attempted to repair them. Once the format is
complete, run scandisk and have a look at the sectors that are marked bad,
these will all have been marked during the format process. Not good news for
the drive, if you choose to continue using it, be sure to keep a backup of
important files!

-----Original Message-----

Whilst formatting recently(which  seems to be a habit of mine to fix
problems) I noticed the message  "Trying to recover allocation unit"
with a number/s after it. What does this message mean.

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