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HDD Format fails at last moment
I am adding a second SATA drive to my system. Both are Maxtors connected to
the motherboard. I have reinstalled XP and replaced the HDD's cable, it is recognised as Drive D, and formats from the XP safe Mode command line, windows and Paragond Hard Disk Manager v6.0, however right at the end when (presumably) it is building the sectors a message appears that it is unable to format the drive. Any ideas? I have run out of ideas. Thanks |
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HDD Format fails at last moment
Run the Maxtor Utilities and see if they can spot the problem.
-- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows "Malcy" wrote in message ... I am adding a second SATA drive to my system. Both are Maxtors connected to the motherboard. I have reinstalled XP and replaced the HDD's cable, it is recognised as Drive D, and formats from the XP safe Mode command line, windows and Paragond Hard Disk Manager v6.0, however right at the end when (presumably) it is building the sectors a message appears that it is unable to format the drive. Any ideas? I have run out of ideas. Thanks |
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HDD Format fails at last moment
Try using the Quick Format option. I've problems like this before.
JS "Malcy" wrote in message ... I am adding a second SATA drive to my system. Both are Maxtors connected to the motherboard. I have reinstalled XP and replaced the HDD's cable, it is recognised as Drive D, and formats from the XP safe Mode command line, windows and Paragond Hard Disk Manager v6.0, however right at the end when (presumably) it is building the sectors a message appears that it is unable to format the drive. Any ideas? I have run out of ideas. Thanks |
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