Greg;
Get the manufacturers hard drive diagnosis disk from their website
for example www.westerndigital.com, or www.maxtor.com
Run it on your hard drive to determine if it has problems.
You can use the manufacturers install disk to install the drive
easily too.
To do a clean windows install you should also blow away the partition(s)
using Fdisk, then reformat the drive.
I hardly ever feel the need to "sys" a drive.
I just format and copy the Win95 cab files to the harddrive and install from
there.
Sounds like perhaps the drive has problems.

<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Shaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:08 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Formatting C Drive using WIndows95


> Hi there,
>
> I recently posted the fact I was having problems formatting my C Drive
using Windows95.  I would like to thank all those who responded with
suggestions.  Most of you suggested that my boot disk might not have
"format.com" included on it.  Well those that suggest that were right so I
found a boot disk that had the format command included.  I then attempted to
format my hard drive and would like to report what happen and hope that
someone might have a suggestion.  I tried "format c:/s" but unfortunately it
didn't work due to insufficient memory.  So I then used "format c" and that
at least went through the routine of formatting my hard drive.
Unfortunately, once completed I received a message that stated this " Trying
to recover allocation Unit 585,928".  I also was never asked to enter
anything in as a volume label.  I then check my C directory and noticed
everything was still on my hard drive.  I also entered "sys c:" after and it
indicated then that system was transferred.  But it's clearly shows that's
not the case.

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