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In article <51amr8$s19@ns2>, wood@hknet.com (Volcano-X) says:

>I startled again and tried hard to find your Disk Manager v7.11 to detect my 
>HD configuration. It seems report correctly. So I would like to know which 
>steps I went wrong and please help me to fix it? Do I need to use low-level 
>format utility to format the disk again? If so, where I can find one? Please 
>help!! Please help! Thanks in advance!

The case of the bad sectors is the basic matter with the hard disk.
The question is should we return it or try to bypass the bad sector
area. In this case - some helping tool is needed. The DM can possibly
tell how the bad sectors are *distributed* over the logical disk area.

It may be possible to setup the partition position with the OS/2 Boot
Manager by creating one/many dummy partition/s. The price to pay is
the use of the Boot Manager etc. This may be acceptable in most cases.

Osmo

Go and get EZsetup Ver 7.? which normally comes with a new Connor hd run
the setup utility which creates a low level and high level partition
When complete boot from a floppy and run fdisk /mbr from the floppy. At tis
point you should only have a bootable hard drive without any software. If
this dosn't work the drive is NO good . If EZsetup cannot setup your drive
then it is toast

Volcano-X <wood@hknet.com> wrote in article <51amr8$s19@ns2>...
> I got a serious problem on formatting my Conner CFS1081A HD on my PC. The

> configuration is as follows:-
> 
> � P5-120MHz CPU with 32MB RAM and 512K SRAM cache.
> � ASUS P55TP4XE motherboard with Award 4.05G BIOS coded 401A0-0106 (This
info. 
> 
> is from boot up screen)
> 
> BIOS can detect the setting of CFS1081A and provide three types of
choice, 
> LBA, NORMAL and LARGE. BIOS translate LBA mode to CYLS=524, HEAD=64 and 
> SECTOR=63. This is only HD I have and already set the appropriate jumper
on 
> it. (Close C/D jumper for master HD)
> 
> First time I used MSDOS FDISK (ver6.22) to partition my HD, it can report
the 
> capacity and let me partition to 1GB for one drive. Then I executed
"FORMAT C: 
> 
> /S" at DOS prompt. It reported "Try to recover allocation unit xxx" where
xxx 
> is the number incrementing while formatting. I startled and stopped the 
> operation at once by pressing Ctrl-Brk, restarted the PC and back to
FDISK 
> again. This time it reported "No space for partition" even the setting
becomes 
> 
> NONE (Blank entry) by pressing option 4 (display setting of HD). That is
FDISK 
> 
> cannot determine the capacity of HD, partition info., how many partitions
are 
> there, etc. 
> 
> Then I tried to use OS/2 Warp installation disk to "retrieve" my HD info.

> Although it can retrieve my HD info., the error reported, "SYS0045:
Sector not 
> 
> found�.", during formatting. 
> 
> I startled again and tried hard to find your Disk Manager v7.11 to detect
my 
> HD configuration. It seems report correctly. So I would like to know
which 
> steps I went wrong and please help me to fix it? Do I need to use
low-level 
> format utility to format the disk again? If so, where I can find one?
Please 
> help!! Please help! Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Chun.
>