Re: The Format Did Not Complete Successfully :(
From: LVTravel (none_at_nothere.com)
Date: 10/26/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:00:28 -0400
Jethro, check to see what the Physical C: drive is in your system. Do this
by right clicking on My Computer and then left clicking on Manage. Left
click on Disk Management. Right click on Disk 0 and then left click on
Properties.
Make sure that the general tab is selected. The type of drive will appear
immediately under the tabs General/Policies/Volumes/Driver. If it shows as
WDC (followed by anything) you have a Western Digital drive as the primary
boot disk.
If you did not change the jumper on this drive when you installed the Maxtor
drive as the secondary yours is exactly the type of problem that will happen
when attempting to access the second drive.
If Disk 0 shows as a Western Digital (WDC followed by anything) you need to
change the jumper on the original drive from a single drive to Master with
slave (the jumper will need to be moved to the middle pair of pins of the 5
pairs on the jumper block as shown below). It may also be on CS (cable
select) which may or may not work but I have had difficulties when placing a
Maxtor drive in CS or Slave status with a WD drive in CS.
As originally shipped a WD drive's jumper will be:
40 pin connector . . . __ Power connector
. . . . .
This would be the setting if Cable Select is currently selected.
40 pin connector : : : : | Power connector
The proper setting with a slave drive attached needs to be:
40 pin connector : : | : : Power connector
jumper block
------------------------------
The Maxtor disk should be set as a slave drive. There should be no jumper
on pins 50 as shown here:
40 pin connector : : : : : Power connector
If the drive is set as cable select it would look like:
40 pin connector : | : : : Power connector
And if the Maxtor drive is set for Master (it shouldn't be) it would be set
as:
40 pin connector | : : : : Power connector
jumper block
"Jethro Jackson" <kettlefalls@aol.com> wrote in message
news:7f9ac036.0410251902.6e5f82ec@posting.google.com...
> "LVTravel" <none@nothere.com> wrote in message
news:<10nos9q33a2bi58@corp.supernews.com>...
> > Almost as important, how did he jumper the old drive? Sometime when
adding
> > a second drive, the jumper on the first drive (especially when it's a
> > Western Digital drive) needs to be changed also.
>
> I don't remember exactly how I jumpered the drive as I installed this
> drive probably six months ago. I know for sure that I carefully
> followed the instructions from Maxtor. The drive appears to be
> installed properly judging from what I'm seeing in Disk Management.
> I'm just now getting around to using it.
>
> Someone else suggested I download and run the PowerMax untility from
> Maxtor to determine if the drive is defective and perhaps delete a
> partition. Unfortunately, I don't have an "a" floppy drive that
> functions...only a "b" usb external floppy. The program will only
> install onto a floppy in the "a" drive...seems pretty crazy to me.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help...once this gets solved, I'll be sure to
> post a followup.
>
> Jethro
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> > "WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:eiU055iuEHA.3152@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > How did you jumper the new hard drive?
> > >
> > > "Jethro Jackson" <kettlefalls@aol.com> wrote in message
> > > news:7f9ac036.0410231514.6a0089fb@posting.google.com...
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I've read the other postings about this problem but they seem to
> > > > involve larger drives. I'm hoping there's a Windows XP expert out
> > > > there that can solve my mystery. Here's my situation:
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Windows XP with all updates other than the new Security
> > > > Service Pack and recently installed a new 40gb Maxtor 6EO4OLO drive
as
> > > > a Second Hard Drive. The drive was installed using the MapBlast 3
> > > > software and appears in both My Computer and Disk Management. It
shows
> > > > as a "healthy" active drive with the letter "f:". It shows a
capacity
> > > > of 38.28 with 100% free with a "No" under the Fault Tolerance column
> > > > and a "0%" under the Overhead column. The area in the File System
> > > > column is blank. (I knew from clicking on the "f:" drive while in
the
> > > > My Computer area that the drive needed to be formatted) I right
> > > > clicked on drive f: while still in the Disk Management area and then
> > > > chose NTFS for the file type and Default for the Allocation Unit
Size.
> > > > Then I started the format. It takes a little bit and reaches 100%
but
> > > > then the message box pops up "The format did not complete
> > > > successfully". The drive shows up in Disk Management as Disk 1 with
> > > > my C drive showing as Disk 0. This has me baffled. I then used
> > > > Mapblast 3 again and set the drive up with two equal partitions. All
> > > > seemed to go well using the software but then the drive didn't show
up
> > > > in My Computer or Disk Management at all. I then went back and set
it
> > > > up as one partition, it once again appeared in My Computer and Disk
> > > > Management and tried formatting again with the same results. I then
> > > > tried a Quick format with no success. If anyone can help me through
> > > > this living Hell of a Nightmare it would be most appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Jethro
> > >
> > >
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