"format terminated"

[joystick8]

I received a "format terminated" message while trying to format a old hard drive. Can anyone tell me what this means, I figure it might be a bad hard drive. I ran scandisk on the drive and it found 10 bad clusters out of 662,000. Thanks for any help

 

[jmatt]

Run the program below & after fdisk , try these format commands & see if one of them works . ( or you can try before using Wipe Out )

1 . format c:/u
2 . format c:/s
3 . format c:

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Freeware .
WIPE OUT : as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those
times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have
left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data
from the Hard Drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter .

Now run fdisk to set up partitions .
When done reboot & format .

 

[joystick8]

thanks jmatt i will give it a try and let you know how it turns out