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Formatting a new second hard drive



 
 
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Old December 9th 03, 04:51 PM
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Default Formatting a new second hard drive

Try formatting your new disk as FAT32 as well. I don't
think FAT32 systems will work with NTFS drives. The
other option is to re-format your first disk as NTFS,
then re-install and try again. This is a lot of effort
though.

-----Original Message-----
I have a computor running windows XP home with a 20Gig
hard drive ST320423A by seagate which is an ATA/66 type.
All works well it uses FAT32
Today i installed a new ST380011A seagete drive which is
NTFs file system only and is ATA/100 type.
Eventually got disk recognised by setup and then XP but

it
says it needs to be formatted.
Every time i do this it eventually finished and says
format failed.
Result no usable new second hard drive.

How can I make windows format this drive?

Any help will be much apreciated!!

Dave
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