It could be that you needed a DDO (dynamic disk overlay), since
you had a problem around "the 8G size"...
Does it ever say anything about pressing a key to boot from a floppy?
(Or similar wording?)

I hope you did a full LONG format on the drive, and not the short
(less than five minutes) version...  If it went VERY fast, I doubt if
"anything" looked at or tested each individual sector of the disk,
so you may not be out of the woods yet...

I "hope" everything is fine, and I wish you well...

                                              Rick Glazier

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>> hung on "trying to reclaim cluster" number such and such.  It stayed there

> Win98setup only saw about 8MB so...

> Numerous partition deletions and formats still hung at sector 23,000.
> It's a WD30gig Caviar.  Downloaded and ran their lifeguard utility.
> It is very fast and reported no bad sectors.  Even ran quick and full
> diagnostics with no errors reported.  Had lifeguard do the partitioning and formatting
> with complete success.

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