Help with formating my old laptop 300mgz

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I have a Thinkpad 240 with a 6g. HD.
I'm trying to format the HD with Ms Dos 6.22
I go to Fdisk and Primary only allows me 33% I add Ext. and that allows
me 67%.
When i reboot with Ms Dos 6.22 It starts to format the C drive then
stops at 57% from formating.
It says Not ready , Format terminated.
What am i doing wrong ??
maybe my HD is shoot??
 
I have a Thinkpad 240 with a 6g. HD.
I'm trying to format the HD with Ms Dos 6.22
I go to Fdisk and Primary only allows me 33% I add Ext. and that allows
me 67%.
When i reboot with Ms Dos 6.22 It starts to format the C drive then
stops at 57% from formating.
It says Not ready , Format terminated.
What am i doing wrong ??
maybe my HD is shoot??
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Forget the currently part as this is old.

There are currently several different versions of MS-DOS in the
personal-computer environment, both in the OEM-licensed versions and
in the Microsoft packaged-product versions. The hard-disk-management
capabilities of MS-DOS vary from one version to another. For example,
MS-DOS versions 3.2 and 3.21 can address a single hard-disk partition
of up to 32 megabytes (MB); MS-DOS version 3.3 can address multiple
hard-disk partitions, with a primary DOS partition of up to 32 MB and
an extended DOS partition containing logical drives of up to 32 MB
each; and MS-DOS versions 4.0, 4.01, 5.0, 6.0, and 6.2 can address
multiple hard-disk partitions with sizes up to 2 gigabytes (GB).

You need to use fdisk and partition the drive to atleast 3 partitions of 2
gb. or maybe alittle bit less.

Then you can format the drive one partition at a time.
 
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