" Format terminated " What problem can it be?

[jason1407]

I'm using win 98 boot disk to check my 40GB Maxtor HDD. I able to do fdisk, deleted the old
partition and created a new primary partition.

I did a restart and try to format the HDD. But after 1%, it stop the formatting. Showing
" HDD not ready" & " Format terminated"

Can someone pls tell me what are the possible problem?


Jas

[cryoborgofthevenus]

Weak/bad sector / Try check with MHDD

[rameez]

Format terminated occurs when there is a series of bad sectors in one row .

[arfaizy13]

format terminated occurs when there is bad sector in this area,

[RJARRRPCGP]

Especially with "Drive not ready" or to that effect, sounds like the HDD is giving the dreaded click of death.

[jason1407]

Thk you for all the advice. Just one more question.

Will there be any solution to help save the HDD?

[cryoborgofthevenus]

Using MHDD, erase the entire hard drive from sector LBA 0 until end. If this process fails, there is no way to save the HDD.