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FORMATTING taking forever

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Formatting 28 GB disk with Disk Director. Volume list reports HDD as Disk 1 (MBR) NTFS, Healthy. Formatting now about 72 hours since commit, upper bar stopped at about 25 % under "p" of "progress", staying there for last 20 hours. HDD clicking away. FORMAT marks bad sectors? No error messages! This DELL D800 laptop (XP_SP3) had failed battery.

New battery let bios be entered, got blue screen on XP boot, stop 77, 0E, etc. Recovery reported disk errors & Setup could not FORMAT the disk on fresh install.

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