Trouble formating hard drive

[don hill]

while im formating a hd. screen says trying to recover allocation unit then it gives a number started at 8,000 does it every couple thousand . i havent seen this befor.im wondering about bad setors on the disc.

 

[Tedster]

how old is this drive. What kind is it? PATA, SATA ?

 

[don hill]

HD. type

its a MDT 40 GB date 08 dec 2002 pata