Re: Having trouble formatting 3rd hard drive

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I mean the Seagate Disk checking utility, not the setup utility.
Even brand new drives can be DOA

"Newtechie" <newtechie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi DL - yes I have the latest drivers and BIOS for the card. I tried the
Seagate program and it just sits there when I try to format and partition.
I have no problem deleting the partition I created within Windows. It's a
brand new drive so I don't see what the problem could be.

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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You might look on your pci card site and check whether there are any
driver/firmware updates.
You might even try the seagate tools checking utility
If you managed to create a partition in Disk Management you might in any
case be advised to first delete this partition.

"Newtechie" <newtechie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Seagate Barracuda(PATA) 300gb hard drive attached to a PCI
controller card. Windows recognize it in the BIOS and in My computer.
I
first went to format it through Disk management but it failed giving me
the
error "Logical Disk Manager: The format did not complete
successfully".
Ok - so I tried a second time and did the same thing. I believe it
got
up
to 94%. Next, I tried Partition Magic 8 and got the error in the
attached
pic. Finally I tried using the Seagate disc but it didn't bulge at all
and
gave me a not responding when I hit cancelled.

The drive is set to cable select. My system is WinXP MCE w/SP2 with
all
updates. I can provide additional info if needed.

Anyone know what could be the problem?

Thanks,
Newtechie









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