I have assembled one PC on October 2001. It is P-111 1.1 GHz. 40 GB seagate HDD. The problem was while doing scan disk it got terminated at 40%. I did it on DOS environment again. Here also it got terminated at 40%. So after back up I deleted the partition (C: 20GB, D:10GB, E: 10GB) and created new partition (C: 5GB, D:7GB, E:7GB, F:7GB, G:7GB, H:7GB) and started formatting. The format took place for 2 hours each drive. And D: drive format got terminatd. Total ~12 hours it took for format.During format I got message like this " Try to recover allocation unit ...". My question is it is possible to format this hard disk quickly. How to format D: drive which format got terminated.After this problem my modem also not working.

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It sounds like you have a bad drive. I would download and run the maker's diagnostic software and test the drive. If it tests out bad and you can do so, I would return it. If it tests out good, post back with details and we can try to help figure out what else might be wrong.

Try to recover allocation unit ...".
I tend to agree with Budfred...everytime I've gotten that on format the drive was toast...like to know if there is any where to go after that,
I just toss the drive.
(after ripping out the permanent magnet. Those suckers are STRONG...handy for stuff. :p

Dear Budfred
Thank you for the reply. I got some suggestion from seagate to run Disk Manager. After doing that i will give the feed back.
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Seagate tech support suggested me to run zero fill.I tried with seagate Didk Manager.At 20 % zer fill the following message displayed'Write failure to drive , continue yes or no. I said yes . It is coming after every block wiping. I aslo want to know how to come up from trying to recover allocation unit ....
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I'd say it's time for you to report back to Seagate. If it's under warranty they should do a replacement -- back then that drive may have come with a three-year warranty.

Even if it's not warrantied, they may be able to help. A short while back I had a problem with a 6.4gb Fujitsu. A tech there asked me to do the same thing -- the zero fill -- and said if the drive failed the zero fill they would replace it -- despite the fact that the drive was long out of warranty. I was really disappointed when the zero fill fixed the problem....

i agree with them. i had the same problem with my 3year old seagate. i got terminated at 10%. the solution i did? went to a computer store and bougth a new one