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 diagnostic program (including CHKDSK or SCANDISK)? Is your CMOS set up to permit writing to the HD? Is the partition a FAT 16 partition? A 467MB HD should contain about 60,000 clusters. (8K clusters) Good Luck! Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Bastiaan wrote: . > 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 error writing . > fixed disk" as stated by FDISK when I made the partition. . > Did repairing the clusters meant 'removing the write protection'? . > I wonder. . > Anyway I started the formatting and 7.5 hours later 47,000 clusters . > were repaired and I went to bed. . > This morning the partition was ready and formatted. So after all it did . > not take 6 days but between 7.5 and 16 hours. . > ***************************** A few hours later... . > I tried to use the formatted partition and could write just aprox 1Mb to . > the new partition... disk full, 0 bites left :-(( . > The command "FORMAT E: /s" was given and format is repairing the . > clusters again. I hope the computer is ready in the morning... now I am . > going to bed. . > I do not realy need this harddisk but this is intruiging, isn't it? . > ************************************************** . > Am I right that 467Mb contains aprox. 911.250 clusters? So we have to . > conclude that not all the clusters have to be repaired... . > I still have to format a 6Gb HD... 72 days?? . > Regards, Bastiaan . > BTW: computer is a pentium II @ 400MHz.
