Sounds like the problem I had with my old hard drive before it gave up the
ghost. Mine was bad sectors on the hard drive. I tried to use scandisk to
fix but there were too many. I got a new hard drive. Lucky it was still
under warranty.

                                            Wayne Harris
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Caldwll <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD DRIVE HAVOC


>Hello to the Group....
>I picked up a new WD 6.4 GB with plans to set up in a new unit I'm
>building. Droped it in and did a FDISK....rebooted and did a FORMAT C:
>when it got to 71% it started clicking and I got the following
>Trying to recover allocation unit 1,119,559.......it continued along
>going up a number every 97 sec..........it was up to 1.119.713 last time
>I looked ??????? whats going on ?.....should I let it keep going hoping
>it find all the things its looking for or start over with a different
>type of set up disk......I have a WD EZ-bios but those always want to
>split up the drives at 2gb.
>
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