"Felix" wrote in message

Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot
cd
rom somewhere around here.

ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it...

I got sick of the 2.1gb which would spin up maybe 1 in 10 times (if lucky)
so I low level formatted that 10.2gb with the track 0 error after I did a
non destructive test and it stopped straight away with 20 errors.

So its definetely cream crackered my friend also gave me a 1.2gb Western
Digital so I booted to dos and formatted it no errors. I then ran Ghost and
copied the Windows 2000 install from the 2.1gb to the 1.2gb and am using
that now.

144mb free space lol with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and IE6sp1 +
messenger 7.0.