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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (75953)	6/21/2011 1:26:48 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 110652

Ha, TuneUp just alerted me that there is very low disk space of 0% on this HDD that refuses to format. This is actually interesting: When I had a stab at it by booting from my Acronis bootable CD, I made it to sector 73,872 before hitting useless disk. Also the rescue partition used to be "PQSERVICE" so this not so refurbished drive, googling that, looks like it came from an Acer PC. Things you learn when you fiddle. People should know that when you use Windows disk management that sometimes your new disk will show up high in the list around disk 0 or disk 1, but if you actually make any progress formatting, you may see it way down the list (and therefore you may have to scroll down) where I found it again just now at volume J (which is 0% available, heh). I'm going to let this spin another half hour before it officially becomes a paperweight.