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"Trying to recover allocation unit"
I have a new BSE 40GB ATA100 IDE harddrive that I am trying to install
in a older AMD K6-400 computer. I believe the BSE drive is actually a Maxtor OEM drive. Anyway, I ran fdisk and partitioned the drive into two equal (16GB) partitions. When I try to format either partition, the format starts normally, but quickly I get a message saying, "Trying to recover allocation unit," and a countdown. Does this mean the harddrive is bad? Does it mean the harddrive is too large for this older machine? Is there any way around this? The harddrive arrived with no documentation or drivers. |
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Just an update here.
I let the format run its course overnight. It took more than 12 hours. When it was finished, it formatted correctly, but found 132.5 MB of bad sectors. The second partition is formatting now, just to see what happens. My question is this: Will it be okay to use the hard drive? I understand that the machine will not write to the bad sectors, but will the hard drive continue to go bad? Thanks again for your help! Dave |
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