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Cannot format hard drive?

  • 23-08-2007 2:35pm
    #1
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭


    I have an old 20GB ide(pata) Seagate hard drive and decided to throw it into my rig as a backup hard drive. Anyway every time I try to format it appears to be working away grand until it hits 99% when it just fails and throws back an error saying "Format did NOT complete successfully". I tried using Windows disk manager and also Partition manager 8 but the result is the same for both. I also used the windows utility for scanning the disk for errors and the seagate utility, they both say its fine.

    Other things I have tried
    - Made sure the jumpers are set correct for this drive as it is on the slave connection while my DVD drive is on the master.
    - Tried formatting in FAT32 instead of NTFS but still the same error.

    I'm at a bit of loss here. Any ideas anyone?


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Maybe try to format it on another machine if possible.


  • #3
    far2gud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭far2gud


    Run a drive diagnostic, sounds like it may be faulty. Maxtor have a good one called powermax. Maybe try format using fdisk from dos first.


  • #4
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Cool I'll give those suggestions a go and if there is still no joy then I reckon its heading for the bin!


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