I FDISKed it. It had NO partition.

I then re-partitioned it, formatted( through DOS) , Reinstalled Win98. And when I got into Win98 I saw all the old files
still there.


The ONLY explanation I can come up with, is that the HDD CAN'T be formatted. It's got some sort of fault thats FAKING a
format. It's going through the motions of the format, but isn't actually doing it.


****....that sounded plausable till I said it out loud.

I have never seen anything like this.