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Subject:
Hard drive format problem
From:
Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:52:58 -0700
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I'm trying to format a West. Digital small
 (around 600 mb)drive and when I get up to
 90% or so it stops and says:
"trying to recover allocation unit"
 then counts up from 37,835 or so and them
 aborts format. I've done it about 5 times.

 Is this drive dead?
 TIA;


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