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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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