Author: The Paranoid (dialin-145-254-195-166.arcor-ip.net)
Date: 04-29-2004 19:17
Are you sure you're "formatting" the drive ?
Actually, "formatting" means the physical initialisation into sectors and tracks, just like on an ordinary floppy disk.
This actually goes FAR beyond the "formatting" of todays IDE/SCSI-drives which does not initialize sectors and tracks but only "empty" the existing ones.
I recommend to use AHDI to really re-format the drive (this will take over an hour, so better be patient) which
However, i am afraid that the disk actually has many bad sectors and that these 5MB was the largest portion still usable.
Hope that helps a bit.
The Paranoid
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