Re: Reformat of 160GB Hard Drive

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From: bole2cant (sherwin_at_xxxmission.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:06:54 -0600

You aren't trying to format using the DOS command "format d:" are you?

My experience doing this, once (several months ago) was that I had to use the
Disk Management pane to do the formatting. Could have been a fluke, but Format
didn't get the job done!?

-Doug

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"howie8" <howie8@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:47F805F6-145F-4876-857E-872435D2C06C@microsoft.com...
> I am running sp1a, I assume, since the version info says I am. Let me give a
little more info.
> My mobo is an asus p4c800 deluxe, with a pentium 4 2.8 gig processor. The os
sees the drives as scsi even though they are ide since they are accessed
through the onboard Promise SATA378 IDE controller. Hope this helps.

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