Re: FORMATTING...

2003-07-31 Thread Roger Turk
Bastiaan, That is strange. I just did a Google search on "repairing clusters" and came up with only one hit. A couple of questions: Did you do a low level format on this HD? Does your HD have a "write protect" jumper? Did you run ATTRIB.EXE on your new partition? Have you run any HD diagnos

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-07-31 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
Hi Glenn, Yes, a few minutes was what I expected for the formatting of 467Mb. But I never saw 'FORMAT' saying that is was going to repair the clusters first... not stating what was actually going to be repared and not how long that would take. Perhaps this has something to do with: "write protect