Hard Drive Problems

From: George Ditmore (gdit_at_verizon.net)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:31:08 GMT

Basic symptoms: New 120 gig hard drive (Maxtor 6Y120P). Is recognized by
BIOS by not by Windows XP Install CD (message to the effect that it can't
find a hard drive after getting the the point where I press "Enter" to
install XP) on my Dell Dimension 4400 Desktop. Nor can it be found by the
Maxtor MaxBlast3 CD (message that no Maxtor drive can be found). Put the
drive into my firewire drive bay attached to my laptop with XP already
installed and not only does the BIOS detect it but so does XP but gives the
messasge "Windows cannot format this drive" when I attempt to format. Disk
Management software does show the drive as E: with a full 123 point
something partition (healthy). Anyone have any ideas? Has my Dell somehow
clobbered my new drive already? I have an old drive that I was replacing
because of exactly the same symptoms.

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