Re: Attempts to format G: hard drive partition fail
- From: <rsl18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:59:29 -0800
Yes, it was indeed a Capacity Limiting Jumper (CLJ) issue. It was quite
inconvenient that there was no label on the HD to indicate jumper settings,
and the chart from the Seagate website was not specific to our Maxtor drive.
But we muddled through.
"Andy" <1@xxx> wrote in message
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Check the jumpers on the Maxtor drive. Make sure it's not jumpered to
restrict its capacity to 32GB.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:07:17 -0800, <rsl18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The C: drive is the new 320 GB. No problem there. Disk Management
identifies this as Disk 0. The second physical drive is a Maxtor 96147H6,
which is 60GB, and identified by Disk Management as Disk 1. After I
deleted
both old partitions, Disk Management now reports Disk 1 as being
unallocated, but only 31.39 GB in size, which is about half of the true
size. Browsing around in Disk Management, I see that the "Maxtor 96147H6
Properties" window indicates that the "partition style" is Master Boot
Record, and the capacity is 32248 MB.
What may I do to get the drive to be seen as its full 60 GB capacity?
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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Confusing; bought a large hd and installed winxp on it, then you refer
to
a 60gb that was partitioned by a previous user.
If this is a second user sys, then in disk management Delete both
partitions on the 60gb - after all you dont know what was done on them
<rsl18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perhaps I did not understand every bit of the IBM-wipe-zap reference,
but
what I did understand leads me to wondoer if this IBM utility will work
on a 60GB HD?
"Ron Badour" <Sorry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Zap or Wipe freeware will remove all partition information so you can
start over fresh with FDisk. Download it here:
http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/ibm-wipe-zap.html
--
Regards
Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2008
<rsl18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We bought a new 320 GB internal drive and installed WinXP Pro on it.
A
previous user of a 60 GB hard drive seems to have partitioned it into
two partitions of approx. 30 GB each. Drive letters are F and G. We
reformatted Logical drive F: NTFS without a problem. All attempts
to
format G: fail. It is not possible to open G:. What we want to do
is
reformat the entire 60GB physical drive, as a single partition.
I have lost my notes on the navigation path to get to "Disk
Management" but when I got there, F: was identified as NTFS and
"healthy" but G had no File System type shown, although it was also
called "healthy."
Please remind me of how to navigate to the Disk Management utility.
Getting there will not enable me to format G, as my attempts have
failed completely, but I want to know for future maintenance.
Please tell me how I can force the operating system to delete both
partitions and reformat the entire 60GB.
.
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