Re: Having trouble formatting 3rd hard drive

Hi Bill,

I've run into another problem now. I changed to drive to master like you
suggested. When I boot up, it just stays at the WinXP screen with the
progress bar and doesn't go any further. If I remove the power from the
300g drive, then all is fine and I can boot normally. I didn't have this
problem last night. What could have gone wrong now? Please help.

Thanks,
newtechie

"Bill Blanton" <bblanton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try setting the drive to to master-single, or master w/ slave, whichever
is
applicable. If that doesn't help, and you're currently trying to configure
the disk as one big 300GB partition, then try creating a slightly smaller
partition. There's a possibilty that the partition is spanning past the
end of
the disk.



"Newtechie" <newtechie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tried the quick format too :-(

"JS" <@> wrote in message news:Ox4zzZPCHHA.4740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You might also try the Quick Format option, sometimes this works on
large drive when Full format fails (typically near the completion of the
formatting).

JS

"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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