I recently bought a used Fujitsu HDD. I was unable to high level format it.
So, I thought I'd try the erase utility from Fujitsu, an it worked fine.
When I try to format in DOS it formats a little then states Trying to
recover allocation unit. When I try the Win98SE setup format it just stays
stuck at 47 or 48 % done.
Has this happened to anyone here before ?
Thought I'd try a post here before I exchange it for another drive from
where I got it from.

"Chukyo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I recently bought a used Fujitsu HDD. I was unable to high level format
it.
> So, I thought I'd try the erase utility from Fujitsu, an it worked fine.
> When I try to format in DOS it formats a little then states Trying to
> recover allocation unit. When I try the Win98SE setup format it just stays
> stuck at 47 or 48 % done.
> Has this happened to anyone here before ?
> Thought I'd try a post here before I exchange it for another drive from
> where I got it from.
>
>

Not worth taking a chance...even if you could recover it...
exchange it at once!

"Chukyo" <(E-Mail Removed)> astounded us with: news60Ib.158590
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> I recently bought a used Fujitsu HDD. I was unable to high level format it.
> So, I thought I'd try the erase utility from Fujitsu, an it worked fine.
> When I try to format in DOS it formats a little then states Trying to
> recover allocation unit. When I try the Win98SE setup format it just stays
> stuck at 47 or 48 % done.
> Has this happened to anyone here before ?
> Thought I'd try a post here before I exchange it for another drive from
> where I got it from.
>
>

It's on it's last legs, do you want to entrust your data to it??



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Gene P

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:27:15 GMT, "Chukyo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I recently bought a used Fujitsu HDD. I was unable to high level format it.
>So, I thought I'd try the erase utility from Fujitsu, an it worked fine.
>When I try to format in DOS it formats a little then states Trying to
>recover allocation unit. When I try the Win98SE setup format it just stays
>stuck at 47 or 48 % done.
>Has this happened to anyone here before ?

Yes, on bad HDDs. I partition around the error, and not use the HDD
for critical data (or back up to a reliable disk).

>Thought I'd try a post here before I exchange it for another drive from
>where I got it from.
>

If you have that opportunity, take it.

Thanks for all your replys, I got a new HDD and it's fine
"Chukyo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news60Ib.158590$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I recently bought a used Fujitsu HDD. I was unable to high level format
it.
> So, I thought I'd try the erase utility from Fujitsu, an it worked fine.
> When I try to format in DOS it formats a little then states Trying to
> recover allocation unit. When I try the Win98SE setup format it just stays
> stuck at 47 or 48 % done.
> Has this happened to anyone here before ?
> Thought I'd try a post here before I exchange it for another drive from
> where I got it from.
>
>