Good news, formated again, this time the format ran at normal speed, reloaded windows again at normal speed and with no hangs,disk appears to be fine.. .Now only problem I have is geting the fecking modem to work,graphic card driver,sound card drivers loaded first time fine, windows doesn't seem to want to recognise the manufacturers drivers from the modem instalation disc.. .Thanks for the help, back to the grindstone.. .Six bad sectors out of 2000 odd don't seem that bad might get a couple more years out of disc.. .PS the mistake I made was runnins surface scan after I had loaded windows I think.