Best Way To Format Drive
Replies: 5 | Post Date: July 17th, 2007, 12:14 PM | User: Sdtech | Forums: forums.devshed.comWhats the best way of formatting a hd that has windows 2000 on it. I am wanting to load windows xp professional on this laptop but the problem is this laptop does not have a cd-rom drive on it. I am looking for a simple way of formatting from a floppy disk.
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- Format Firewire Drive
- Need To Re-format New 1tb Drive
- How Do I Format Hard Drive ?
- Format Drive For Mac / Pc
- How To Format Usb Drive That Computer Does Not See?
- How To Format An Invisible Hard Drive
- How Do You Format A Hard Drive From A Cd Rom ?
- Format Hard Drive Without Use Of Bootable Cd
- Format Usb Drive In Fat32
- Format Drive For Linux Issue
- Format A Vonage Usb Flash Drive
- Do I Have To Format A New Hard Drive Before Installing Vista 64 ?
- How Long To Format A 1tb Drive In Blacx ?
- Does Format Several Times Affect Hard Drive ?
- Unable To Format Ide Hard Drive
- Can I Format Recovery Drive On Dell Laptop ?
- How Can I Format Pen Drive Drive?
- External Usb Hard Drive Format Problem
- Usb Device Problems After Format Hard Drive
- Western Digital Hard Drive Partition And Format
- Format Hard Drive As Ntfs Without Installing Windows Xp
- External Usb Drive Is Taking 6+ Hours To Format
- Can't Format Or Find External Hard Drive
- Usb Port Not Working After Format Hard Drive & Reinstall Xp
- Error: Format Could Not Complete
- Format Hd Everytime The Pc Reboots
- External Wd Passport: Which Format ?
- Computer Is Trying To Format The Hdd
Cant Format F: Drive
1. Formating with windows :
Quick format error : windows was unable to format this drive. Full format: windows was unable to format this drive
2. Formatting with cmd :
C:>format f:/q/fs:ntfs
The type of the file system is raw. The new file system is ntfs. Warning, all data on non-removable disk
Drive f: will be lost!
Proceed with format (y/n)? Y
Quick-formatting 90224m
Volume label (enter for none)? F
Creating file system structures. The second ntfs boot sector is unwritable. The first ntfs boot sector is unwritable. All ntfs boot sectors are unwritable. Cannot continue. Format failed. 3. Formating while booting :
The volume cannot be formatted the drive may be damaged or check ur scsi device if its connected properly else check ur scsi specification manual. I anxious about my memory . Please help me. Do i have to format all drives/hdd? I don't know how to do that & then setup file system again?
Posted On: 3 weeks ago . View 1 Replies .
1. Formating with windows :
Quick format error : windows was unable to format this drive. Full format: windows was unable to format this drive
2. Formatting with cmd :
C:>format f:/q/fs:ntfs
The type of the file system is raw. The new file system is ntfs. Warning, all data on non-removable disk
Drive f: will be lost!
Proceed with format (y/n)? Y
Quick-formatting 90224m
Volume label (enter for none)? F
Creating file system structures. The second ntfs boot sector is unwritable. The first ntfs boot sector is unwritable. All ntfs boot sectors are unwritable. Cannot continue. Format failed. 3. Formating while booting :
The volume cannot be formatted the drive may be damaged or check ur scsi device if its connected properly else check ur scsi specification manual. I anxious about my memory . Please help me. Do i have to format all drives/hdd? I don't know how to do that & then setup file system again?
Posted On: 3 weeks ago . View 1 Replies .
Format Firewire Drive
Purchased a ads 1394 drive case and power unit and dropped in a new ibm deskstar 123gb disc. All installed ok other than it shows up as a removable drive in windows explorer and cannot be formatted. I'm not sure how to format the disc other than take it out and put it into one of the other drive bays (full) do it, then swap>.
Posted On: June 28th, 2003, 09:13 AM . View 4 Replies .
Purchased a ads 1394 drive case and power unit and dropped in a new ibm deskstar 123gb disc. All installed ok other than it shows up as a removable drive in windows explorer and cannot be formatted. I'm not sure how to format the disc other than take it out and put it into one of the other drive bays (full) do it, then swap>.
Posted On: June 28th, 2003, 09:13 AM . View 4 Replies .
Need To Re-format New 1tb Drive
I just got a new 1tb wd black drive and intend to use it as a non-os gaming/video/etc drive with a smaller os drive (once i can get back into that os drive, transfer it's data, and then reformat it-another thread). Got it oem from newegg - it's been 2 years since i built so i'm rusty - do i need to reformat or prep the drive prior to plugging this sucker in? I was planning on using it as the "dump" to transfer the needed files from my os drive once i get back in. I was just going to plug it in, connect the sata cable and then drag and drop all the needed files over. Once i reformat the smaller os drive, the 1tb will remain as my secondary drive. So what is this old man missing now?
Posted On: 04-10-2009, 10:22 AM . View 2 Replies .
I just got a new 1tb wd black drive and intend to use it as a non-os gaming/video/etc drive with a smaller os drive (once i can get back into that os drive, transfer it's data, and then reformat it-another thread). Got it oem from newegg - it's been 2 years since i built so i'm rusty - do i need to reformat or prep the drive prior to plugging this sucker in? I was planning on using it as the "dump" to transfer the needed files from my os drive once i get back in. I was just going to plug it in, connect the sata cable and then drag and drop all the needed files over. Once i reformat the smaller os drive, the 1tb will remain as my secondary drive. So what is this old man missing now?
Posted On: 04-10-2009, 10:22 AM . View 2 Replies .
How Do I Format Hard Drive ?
I just got a new mobo and processor for my comp and i'm installing windows 7. I want to format my hd and start over but when i go to format the hd i get the error that windows cannon format the drive. It says i need to quit any programs i'm running. How do i quit all programs and still have the window open to format?
Posted On: 02-13-2010, 08:45 PM . View 8 Replies .
I just got a new mobo and processor for my comp and i'm installing windows 7. I want to format my hd and start over but when i go to format the hd i get the error that windows cannon format the drive. It says i need to quit any programs i'm running. How do i quit all programs and still have the window open to format?
Posted On: 02-13-2010, 08:45 PM . View 8 Replies .
Format Drive For Mac / Pc
Anyway to format an external drive to be mac/pc readable and writable ?
Posted On: 07-09-2009, 06:38 PM . View 3 Replies .
Anyway to format an external drive to be mac/pc readable and writable ?
Posted On: 07-09-2009, 06:38 PM . View 3 Replies .
How To Format Usb Drive That Computer Does Not See?
I just bought a new hdd 2. 5 inch and a new usb case. My computer recognizes that mass storage device, but it does not see the drive. I think that it is because it has not been formatted, does anyone have any suggestions on how to format this drive that the computer does not see?
Posted On: December 3rd, 2008, 05:37 PM . View 1 Replies .
I just bought a new hdd 2. 5 inch and a new usb case. My computer recognizes that mass storage device, but it does not see the drive. I think that it is because it has not been formatted, does anyone have any suggestions on how to format this drive that the computer does not see?
Posted On: December 3rd, 2008, 05:37 PM . View 1 Replies .
How To Format An Invisible Hard Drive
My computer, one of those shuttle mini's, is getting a little boggy so i figured it's about time to formatt the ol drive and clear those pesky dll's with no place to go out. I did this every year with win95, and 98. I run win xp pro now and this is my first time formatting with it. Here's my problem: i tried to format using the bootable cd (that i own) of xp pro. Following duncans post earlier and those incredibly clear directions (kuddos). I got to the part where it asked which disk/ partitions i would like to use. The box shows 2 partitions but also said no disks found? Checking my bios for the hard drive it says no drives detected? "0's" in every value.contacted the guys who put this computer together and they wont answer my questions. I guess i should have paid for that extended warranty, sign. I cant fathom how my computer works ok and i cant get the bios or the xp formatting tool to see the hard drive. Note: i disabled the sata/raid in the bios and the computer wont boot. Or it will boot through the post then ask for a bootable cd: i didnt go any farther and returned the settings to enable. I only have the one hard drive so i thought disabling the sata/raid in the bios would be a way to avoid seeing that during the post. I'm thinking there is a way/ technique to install a hard drive and not have it show up anywhere. I've asked around to all my friends who know a lot more than i but they all say they know of no way to do this. It does show up in "my computer", it's not like i cant access the info on it or anything like that. I just cant format the darned thing. Can anybody shed some light on this so i can format my hard drive.
Posted On: November 4th, 2005, 02:27 PM . View 1 Replies .
My computer, one of those shuttle mini's, is getting a little boggy so i figured it's about time to formatt the ol drive and clear those pesky dll's with no place to go out. I did this every year with win95, and 98. I run win xp pro now and this is my first time formatting with it. Here's my problem: i tried to format using the bootable cd (that i own) of xp pro. Following duncans post earlier and those incredibly clear directions (kuddos). I got to the part where it asked which disk/ partitions i would like to use. The box shows 2 partitions but also said no disks found? Checking my bios for the hard drive it says no drives detected? "0's" in every value.contacted the guys who put this computer together and they wont answer my questions. I guess i should have paid for that extended warranty, sign. I cant fathom how my computer works ok and i cant get the bios or the xp formatting tool to see the hard drive. Note: i disabled the sata/raid in the bios and the computer wont boot. Or it will boot through the post then ask for a bootable cd: i didnt go any farther and returned the settings to enable. I only have the one hard drive so i thought disabling the sata/raid in the bios would be a way to avoid seeing that during the post. I'm thinking there is a way/ technique to install a hard drive and not have it show up anywhere. I've asked around to all my friends who know a lot more than i but they all say they know of no way to do this. It does show up in "my computer", it's not like i cant access the info on it or anything like that. I just cant format the darned thing. Can anybody shed some light on this so i can format my hard drive.
Posted On: November 4th, 2005, 02:27 PM . View 1 Replies .
How Do You Format A Hard Drive From A Cd Rom ?
Is there any software that you can put on a cd-rom that will format the harddrive of a system. The problem that i have is my laptop loads to the manufacturers screen then reloads and continues this so i think that i need to reformat the hard drive. I tried putting a windows 2000 cd-rom in it and it did not load or recognize it, sinces its a new laptop it has no floppy drive can someone please tell me what to use.
Posted On: May 5th, 2006, 06:59 PM . View 8 Replies .
Is there any software that you can put on a cd-rom that will format the harddrive of a system. The problem that i have is my laptop loads to the manufacturers screen then reloads and continues this so i think that i need to reformat the hard drive. I tried putting a windows 2000 cd-rom in it and it did not load or recognize it, sinces its a new laptop it has no floppy drive can someone please tell me what to use.
Posted On: May 5th, 2006, 06:59 PM . View 8 Replies .
Format Hard Drive Without Use Of Bootable Cd
Is it possible that i can format my hard drive without the use of bootable cd ? Coz i my "bootable cd " is now corrupted and i cant format right now.
Posted On: April 11th, 2007, 04:03 AM . View 7 Replies .
Is it possible that i can format my hard drive without the use of bootable cd ? Coz i my "bootable cd " is now corrupted and i cant format right now.
Posted On: April 11th, 2007, 04:03 AM . View 7 Replies .
Format Usb Drive In Fat32
I have an external usb enclosure with maxtor hd. I wanted to fornmat it in fat32 to copy mp3 music to use with pioneer vsx919 receiver. First i formatted in exfat (vista) thinking that the receiver would be able to read it but no go. Then i used hp usb format program for flash drive and it formatted only 128 gig, which is fine for my purpose. Plugged back in the main pc to copy the files, the drive was not recognized. What can i do to get it formatted in fat32 and able to copy the files?
Posted On: 10-18-2009, 11:58 AM . View 18 Replies .
I have an external usb enclosure with maxtor hd. I wanted to fornmat it in fat32 to copy mp3 music to use with pioneer vsx919 receiver. First i formatted in exfat (vista) thinking that the receiver would be able to read it but no go. Then i used hp usb format program for flash drive and it formatted only 128 gig, which is fine for my purpose. Plugged back in the main pc to copy the files, the drive was not recognized. What can i do to get it formatted in fat32 and able to copy the files?
Posted On: 10-18-2009, 11:58 AM . View 18 Replies .
Format Drive For Linux Issue
Ok, so i have all this extra hardware and everything works fine, except for the hdd. And im going to do the ubuntu thing, i gots my install cd but there is problem. Whenever i boot it, i get disk boot error insert system disk. So i toss the hdd into my xp machine and format it blank, with ntfs and i get master boot error press a button, and then i get the disk boot error. I made sure that the jumpers are all right and what not, so can anyone tell me how i can get it to work, im thinking about starting up a linux server in my closet. Thanks yall. -Edit-
Well, i slept on it and i think i could redo my question, basically, i just want to wipe the drive clean and not give it a filesysetm, no fat or ntfs, just blank so that ubuntu could make one on its own.
Posted On: February 24th 2006 . View 1 Replies .
Ok, so i have all this extra hardware and everything works fine, except for the hdd. And im going to do the ubuntu thing, i gots my install cd but there is problem. Whenever i boot it, i get disk boot error insert system disk. So i toss the hdd into my xp machine and format it blank, with ntfs and i get master boot error press a button, and then i get the disk boot error. I made sure that the jumpers are all right and what not, so can anyone tell me how i can get it to work, im thinking about starting up a linux server in my closet. Thanks yall. -Edit-
Well, i slept on it and i think i could redo my question, basically, i just want to wipe the drive clean and not give it a filesysetm, no fat or ntfs, just blank so that ubuntu could make one on its own.
Posted On: February 24th 2006 . View 1 Replies .
Format A Vonage Usb Flash Drive
I have a vonage usb flash drive that was our voip phone for a few days. It has a mini headphone jack (the same as a cell phone) on the side for talking with it. I now have a vonage router so we can use our house phone. Much better, but now i want to format the usb drive to remove all vonage info from it. I formatted it but all the vonage stuff is still hidden on it. And it auto loads the phone drivers and stuff every time i plug it in. I tried norton partition magic to do it but it wouldnt recogonize a flash drive. Any ideas on how i can wipe it totally clean? I am gonna use it to soft mod my xbox. And have already made the wire to connect it. It works fine on my xbox. But it still auto loads vonage software and drivers when i put it in my computer.
Posted On: 04-13-2007, 02:24 AM . View 6 Replies .
I have a vonage usb flash drive that was our voip phone for a few days. It has a mini headphone jack (the same as a cell phone) on the side for talking with it. I now have a vonage router so we can use our house phone. Much better, but now i want to format the usb drive to remove all vonage info from it. I formatted it but all the vonage stuff is still hidden on it. And it auto loads the phone drivers and stuff every time i plug it in. I tried norton partition magic to do it but it wouldnt recogonize a flash drive. Any ideas on how i can wipe it totally clean? I am gonna use it to soft mod my xbox. And have already made the wire to connect it. It works fine on my xbox. But it still auto loads vonage software and drivers when i put it in my computer.
Posted On: 04-13-2007, 02:24 AM . View 6 Replies .
Do I Have To Format A New Hard Drive Before Installing Vista 64 ?
I just installed a new wd 1tb black hard drive into a new system. I installed vista 64 without doing any type of format. Was i supposed to format the drive before installing the os?
Or does it automatically use ntfs?
Just want to find out right away so i can redo it if necessary.
Posted On: 03-31-2009, 02:29 PM . View 4 Replies .
I just installed a new wd 1tb black hard drive into a new system. I installed vista 64 without doing any type of format. Was i supposed to format the drive before installing the os?
Or does it automatically use ntfs?
Just want to find out right away so i can redo it if necessary.
Posted On: 03-31-2009, 02:29 PM . View 4 Replies .
How Long To Format A 1tb Drive In Blacx ?
I just purchased a thermaltake blacx. I have placed a wd 1 tb drive in it for the first time. This is a brand new drive that i ordered with the blacx. I am formatting the drive per the instructions on my vista 64 system. It has been formatting for over 2. 5 hours and it is only at 24%. Is this normal?
Posted On: 12-18-2009, 08:15 PM . View 7 Replies .
I just purchased a thermaltake blacx. I have placed a wd 1 tb drive in it for the first time. This is a brand new drive that i ordered with the blacx. I am formatting the drive per the instructions on my vista 64 system. It has been formatting for over 2. 5 hours and it is only at 24%. Is this normal?
Posted On: 12-18-2009, 08:15 PM . View 7 Replies .
Does Format Several Times Affect Hard Drive ?
Does the format affects the hard drive badly if some one made it several times ?
When i say for example
Format c:
Or
Format c:/q
Does this affects the hard drive badly ?
Posted On: October 7th 2006 . View 4 Replies .
Does the format affects the hard drive badly if some one made it several times ?
When i say for example
Format c:
Or
Format c:/q
Does this affects the hard drive badly ?
Posted On: October 7th 2006 . View 4 Replies .
Unable To Format Ide Hard Drive
Apart from my 80 gb sata hard drive, i was having an additional 40 gb ide hard drive. I was storing some data in it without any problem. Today i had to remove ide cable from my ide hard drive because i had to switch over one my cd drives. And after reconnecting the ide cable and booting up the pc, the hard drive labels got changes from (g) and (h) drive to (i) and (j) drive. My sata drive's labels are (c). (D) and (e). This sata drive's didn't get changed, and only ide drive's got changed and i guess its because of my cd and dvd drive were allocated g and h label's. And now the problem is, i am not able to access i and j drives. Its saying. The disk in drive i is not formatted. Do you want to format it now ? I don't mind losing the data, but even i am not able to format as its saying. Windows was unable to complete the format. I also tried to open up a dos command prompt and tried doing "format i:" and it said. The type of the file system is raw. Please use the /fs switch to specify the file system
You wish to use on this volume. One of the person suggested to do the following. If you are running xp pro, you can click start, control panel, admin. Tools, computer management, and then disk management on the left. Maximize the screen, and you can see all of your drives, partitions, and perform formats if you so desire. And when i did as above, there were 2 drives other than c, d, f, i, j which were not having any volume with status as healthy(unknown partition) and with capacity 18. 66 and 926 mb. The above 2 were from sata drive and were not assigned any partitions i think. Any idea how to assign a partition(i mean volume label) so that i can use this too ?
And coming back to my ide drive, i and j are shown under disk 0 which is the ide hard drive and c, d, f and those 2 unassigned partitions are shown under disk 1 which is the sata hard drive. So when i right clicked on i drive and formatted. After 100% of formatting is completed in say 5 mins time, it said "the formatting cannot be completed successfully"
Please how to solve this ?
Posted On: July 2nd 2007 . View 7 Replies .
Apart from my 80 gb sata hard drive, i was having an additional 40 gb ide hard drive. I was storing some data in it without any problem. Today i had to remove ide cable from my ide hard drive because i had to switch over one my cd drives. And after reconnecting the ide cable and booting up the pc, the hard drive labels got changes from (g) and (h) drive to (i) and (j) drive. My sata drive's labels are (c). (D) and (e). This sata drive's didn't get changed, and only ide drive's got changed and i guess its because of my cd and dvd drive were allocated g and h label's. And now the problem is, i am not able to access i and j drives. Its saying. The disk in drive i is not formatted. Do you want to format it now ? I don't mind losing the data, but even i am not able to format as its saying. Windows was unable to complete the format. I also tried to open up a dos command prompt and tried doing "format i:" and it said. The type of the file system is raw. Please use the /fs switch to specify the file system
You wish to use on this volume. One of the person suggested to do the following. If you are running xp pro, you can click start, control panel, admin. Tools, computer management, and then disk management on the left. Maximize the screen, and you can see all of your drives, partitions, and perform formats if you so desire. And when i did as above, there were 2 drives other than c, d, f, i, j which were not having any volume with status as healthy(unknown partition) and with capacity 18. 66 and 926 mb. The above 2 were from sata drive and were not assigned any partitions i think. Any idea how to assign a partition(i mean volume label) so that i can use this too ?
And coming back to my ide drive, i and j are shown under disk 0 which is the ide hard drive and c, d, f and those 2 unassigned partitions are shown under disk 1 which is the sata hard drive. So when i right clicked on i drive and formatted. After 100% of formatting is completed in say 5 mins time, it said "the formatting cannot be completed successfully"
Please how to solve this ?
Posted On: July 2nd 2007 . View 7 Replies .
Can I Format Recovery Drive On Dell Laptop ?
I am using windows 7 os in my dell laptop. There is a drive named recovery. Can i format that drive?What happens if i format it. Anyways the next recovery points will be created as usual right? What is its importance.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 4 Replies .
I am using windows 7 os in my dell laptop. There is a drive named recovery. Can i format that drive?What happens if i format it. Anyways the next recovery points will be created as usual right? What is its importance.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 4 Replies .
How Can I Format Pen Drive Drive?
How can i format my pen drive drive?, I am so worried abt my pen-drive. I have a pen-drive of 2 gb which was working good and fine till some minutes ago. I have 2 operating system, i.e, ubuntu 9. 10 and windows 7. What happened is that, logged on to ubuntu 9. 10 and started to do some experiments(i am not good at linux), i had got a minipentoo's iso and there was a procedure to install it in pen drive, so i carried out without more knowledge. I typed some commands like fdisk /dev/sdc and then
D (delete the partitions you might have)
N (new)
P (primary)
1 (number 1)
Choose the size you want. A (bootable flag)
1 (number 1)
Do it the size you want 1 gb is enough, the whole is better
W (write)
I even tried this:
Mkfs. Ext2 /dev/sdc1
But it went to saying error after first or second chance. And then i gave up, and i also remember i went to the disk utility and deleted the partition of the disk. So i messed up a lot. Finally, giving up my work i am logged on to windows just to find my pen drive is not working , first it proposed to format and i agreed but the formatting was-unsuccessful, it said that it "the specified cluster size is too big for fat", and clearly it made no sense to me. Can u help me how to format my pen drive right from the bottom and have it to use, it has no physical drawback, it is so fine and i also do not agree that the pen drive is gone, it is just messed up and i don't have the idea to get it back.
Posted On: 3 months ago . View 1 Replies .
How can i format my pen drive drive?, I am so worried abt my pen-drive. I have a pen-drive of 2 gb which was working good and fine till some minutes ago. I have 2 operating system, i.e, ubuntu 9. 10 and windows 7. What happened is that, logged on to ubuntu 9. 10 and started to do some experiments(i am not good at linux), i had got a minipentoo's iso and there was a procedure to install it in pen drive, so i carried out without more knowledge. I typed some commands like fdisk /dev/sdc and then
D (delete the partitions you might have)
N (new)
P (primary)
1 (number 1)
Choose the size you want. A (bootable flag)
1 (number 1)
Do it the size you want 1 gb is enough, the whole is better
W (write)
I even tried this:
Mkfs. Ext2 /dev/sdc1
But it went to saying error after first or second chance. And then i gave up, and i also remember i went to the disk utility and deleted the partition of the disk. So i messed up a lot. Finally, giving up my work i am logged on to windows just to find my pen drive is not working , first it proposed to format and i agreed but the formatting was-unsuccessful, it said that it "the specified cluster size is too big for fat", and clearly it made no sense to me. Can u help me how to format my pen drive right from the bottom and have it to use, it has no physical drawback, it is so fine and i also do not agree that the pen drive is gone, it is just messed up and i don't have the idea to get it back.
Posted On: 3 months ago . View 1 Replies .
External Usb Hard Drive Format Problem
I just bought a external ide to usb changer and connected a 80 gb samsung hard drive to it. When i log on to windows and i try to format it, i cannot format it. Why? I tried to format using dos as well, but i couldnt do it.
Posted On: January 2nd, 2005, 10:38 PM . View 4 Replies .
I just bought a external ide to usb changer and connected a 80 gb samsung hard drive to it. When i log on to windows and i try to format it, i cannot format it. Why? I tried to format using dos as well, but i couldnt do it.
Posted On: January 2nd, 2005, 10:38 PM . View 4 Replies .
Usb Device Problems After Format Hard Drive
I recently formatted my hard drive and now when i plug my printer through usb it says the device has malfunctioned and windows does not recognise it. In device manager it says unknown device and that there is no drivers installed but the drivers are installed. In the printer set up process it tells me to plug the device into usb port but i have already done this, i also tried it with the device unplugged then doing it when prompted to no avail.
Posted On: April 1st, 2006, 08:55 AM . View 14 Replies .
I recently formatted my hard drive and now when i plug my printer through usb it says the device has malfunctioned and windows does not recognise it. In device manager it says unknown device and that there is no drivers installed but the drivers are installed. In the printer set up process it tells me to plug the device into usb port but i have already done this, i also tried it with the device unplugged then doing it when prompted to no avail.
Posted On: April 1st, 2006, 08:55 AM . View 14 Replies .
Western Digital Hard Drive Partition And Format
I have a western digital caviar 11200 i'm trying to partition and format but having problems. Actually i have 3 old drives that i'm cleaning up and going to sell, 2 worked fine but not the wd drive. After putting it in i boot up the computer and it detects the wd drive as the 1st drive and dvd drive as the 3rd and cdrw as the 4th. It doesn't detect my 40gig drive at all. When doing the other 2 drives it would detect my 40gig hard drive as the 1st and the other drive as 2nd. I have tried all the jumper settings, master, slave and single. Nothing works. What am i doing wrong? Is there anything else i should try. I know this drive works because it was taken out of a working machine 2 weeks ago.
Posted On: July 14th, 2003, 10:23 PM . View 5 Replies .
I have a western digital caviar 11200 i'm trying to partition and format but having problems. Actually i have 3 old drives that i'm cleaning up and going to sell, 2 worked fine but not the wd drive. After putting it in i boot up the computer and it detects the wd drive as the 1st drive and dvd drive as the 3rd and cdrw as the 4th. It doesn't detect my 40gig drive at all. When doing the other 2 drives it would detect my 40gig hard drive as the 1st and the other drive as 2nd. I have tried all the jumper settings, master, slave and single. Nothing works. What am i doing wrong? Is there anything else i should try. I know this drive works because it was taken out of a working machine 2 weeks ago.
Posted On: July 14th, 2003, 10:23 PM . View 5 Replies .
Format Hard Drive As Ntfs Without Installing Windows Xp
I'm installing a 120 gb drive in my computer to hold backups and also as storage for pictures because i do graphic design. My other disks are ntfs and i was wondering how i can format the 120 drive in ntfs without actually installing my windows xp. I jsut want the drive for storage-i don't think regular fat will work on such a large drive-so ive been told.
Posted On: March 20th, 2003, 04:12 PM . View 5 Replies .
I'm installing a 120 gb drive in my computer to hold backups and also as storage for pictures because i do graphic design. My other disks are ntfs and i was wondering how i can format the 120 drive in ntfs without actually installing my windows xp. I jsut want the drive for storage-i don't think regular fat will work on such a large drive-so ive been told.
Posted On: March 20th, 2003, 04:12 PM . View 5 Replies .
External Usb Drive Is Taking 6+ Hours To Format
I just got a new fantom 500gb usb drive in today and started the ntfs format about 6 hours ago with vista disk management, disk management just gave me a percentage a minute ago of 33%. I did a long format, not a quick. Edit: it just now went from 33% to 34% so i'm canceling the format, this is pathetic. Edit2: i canceled the format and it's still going, up to 35% now, *** is going on. Edit3: i turned off the power to the drive, then did a quick format and that worked, but now i'm thinking maybe something is wrong with this drive since it took forever to do a full format.
Posted On: 02-18-2009, 11:31 PM . View 11 Replies .
I just got a new fantom 500gb usb drive in today and started the ntfs format about 6 hours ago with vista disk management, disk management just gave me a percentage a minute ago of 33%. I did a long format, not a quick. Edit: it just now went from 33% to 34% so i'm canceling the format, this is pathetic. Edit2: i canceled the format and it's still going, up to 35% now, *** is going on. Edit3: i turned off the power to the drive, then did a quick format and that worked, but now i'm thinking maybe something is wrong with this drive since it took forever to do a full format.
Posted On: 02-18-2009, 11:31 PM . View 11 Replies .
Can't Format Or Find External Hard Drive
When i plug in my external hard drive i get a message saying usb mass storage device found. I have installed drivers and the device manager says that it is working fine but it will not show up in my computer. I am told that it will need to be in fat 32 format for this to happen but if it doesn't show up how can i format it?
Os = windows 2000
Posted On: May 23rd 2005 . View 5 Replies .
When i plug in my external hard drive i get a message saying usb mass storage device found. I have installed drivers and the device manager says that it is working fine but it will not show up in my computer. I am told that it will need to be in fat 32 format for this to happen but if it doesn't show up how can i format it?
Os = windows 2000
Posted On: May 23rd 2005 . View 5 Replies .
Usb Port Not Working After Format Hard Drive & Reinstall Xp
I am currently usin' an ibm x40 laptop. Things have been workin' fine. Since i had too many craps on my comp, i decided to format my c: to reinstall xp (sp2). However, i was playin' games on my comp last week. My comp encountered a power shortage problem or watever problems along those lines, it rebooted itself all of a sudden. Since then, none of my 2 usb ports are workin'. To further clarify myself, i can tell that the computer detects the devices, includin' mouse, flash key and cd-rom, however, i can access none of these usb devices successfully. I tried to delete all the usb deivers from the device manager and let xp reload them, nothing seems to have changed. And i also checked my bios, usb ports are all enabled. I am wondering what is wrong with my computer. Do u guys have any clues what's goin' on or wat i should try to do to fix my computer.
Posted On: June 12th, 2006, 04:24 PM . View 8 Replies .
I am currently usin' an ibm x40 laptop. Things have been workin' fine. Since i had too many craps on my comp, i decided to format my c: to reinstall xp (sp2). However, i was playin' games on my comp last week. My comp encountered a power shortage problem or watever problems along those lines, it rebooted itself all of a sudden. Since then, none of my 2 usb ports are workin'. To further clarify myself, i can tell that the computer detects the devices, includin' mouse, flash key and cd-rom, however, i can access none of these usb devices successfully. I tried to delete all the usb deivers from the device manager and let xp reload them, nothing seems to have changed. And i also checked my bios, usb ports are all enabled. I am wondering what is wrong with my computer. Do u guys have any clues what's goin' on or wat i should try to do to fix my computer.
Posted On: June 12th, 2006, 04:24 PM . View 8 Replies .
Error: Format Could Not Complete
I got a cheap 250gb hdd, western digital + sata card (altogether it cost me less than a 250gb ide). The card is a silicon image 3112a, it doesn't seem to have any trouble, and i got the latest drivers for it just to be sure. I have this strange problem, i try to format the drive with ntfs, and everytime i try it reports back with an error, i've tried various cloning/partitioning utilities (pqmagic, gdisk, standard format commands) all of them report an error "format could not complete" etc. Here's the funny thing: fat32 works fine, i can format a fat32 drive up to 199. Something gb. At the moment it's still in fat32 format, and i've done read speed tests, and they're fine. But for some reason i can't make it ntfs, even when i try the 'convert g:/fs:ntfs' command in dos it reports errors, needless to say, it's p*ssing me right off. My o/s is xp service pack 2, and i've had drives over 200gb in my pc before without any problems, it's just this drive, maybe its a physical hardware issue, disc sectors?
Posted On: November 5th, 2004, 05:10 AM . View 3 Replies .
I got a cheap 250gb hdd, western digital + sata card (altogether it cost me less than a 250gb ide). The card is a silicon image 3112a, it doesn't seem to have any trouble, and i got the latest drivers for it just to be sure. I have this strange problem, i try to format the drive with ntfs, and everytime i try it reports back with an error, i've tried various cloning/partitioning utilities (pqmagic, gdisk, standard format commands) all of them report an error "format could not complete" etc. Here's the funny thing: fat32 works fine, i can format a fat32 drive up to 199. Something gb. At the moment it's still in fat32 format, and i've done read speed tests, and they're fine. But for some reason i can't make it ntfs, even when i try the 'convert g:/fs:ntfs' command in dos it reports errors, needless to say, it's p*ssing me right off. My o/s is xp service pack 2, and i've had drives over 200gb in my pc before without any problems, it's just this drive, maybe its a physical hardware issue, disc sectors?
Posted On: November 5th, 2004, 05:10 AM . View 3 Replies .
Format Hd Everytime The Pc Reboots
As the topic says, my question is this. How is this possible and how it is done. Everytime you shut down the pc on a network/lan the c drive is supposedly formated and everything in it is lost. Atleast thats what my schools network administrators claim. They say that we should backup any data that we save on the c try bcuz after the pc restarts everything that was saved on the c drive will no longer b there. So anyone know how they do this or they just trying to make us save our stuff on our floopies lol.
Posted On: September 9th, 2003, 01:36 PM . View 4 Replies .
As the topic says, my question is this. How is this possible and how it is done. Everytime you shut down the pc on a network/lan the c drive is supposedly formated and everything in it is lost. Atleast thats what my schools network administrators claim. They say that we should backup any data that we save on the c try bcuz after the pc restarts everything that was saved on the c drive will no longer b there. So anyone know how they do this or they just trying to make us save our stuff on our floopies lol.
Posted On: September 9th, 2003, 01:36 PM . View 4 Replies .
External Wd Passport: Which Format ?
Anyway, i had camped out at staples this morning and am now the proud owner of a 120 wd passport for my happy backing up needs. I have however a few questions. I often go from mac to pc, and vice versa. So i was wondering what format to put my drive in so that it can be written to both. I know there are format differences, but just wondered if this were possible.
Posted On: 11-23-2007, 10:45 PM . View 4 Replies .
Anyway, i had camped out at staples this morning and am now the proud owner of a 120 wd passport for my happy backing up needs. I have however a few questions. I often go from mac to pc, and vice versa. So i was wondering what format to put my drive in so that it can be written to both. I know there are format differences, but just wondered if this were possible.
Posted On: 11-23-2007, 10:45 PM . View 4 Replies .
Computer Is Trying To Format The Hdd
I removed a hd (samsung sp1604n, 160gb ide) from the old computer and now trying to put it in the new one, via a raid card. The computer says it need to be formatted. Even if i attached to the on-board ide channel it is the same deal. I have lot of data in it. How would i avoid this and get the computer to read the drive?
To make it worse, i do not have a backup. Btw, raid card and bios identify the drive. It is xp having problems with this.
Posted On: 03-22-2009, 12:40 PM . View 1 Replies .
I removed a hd (samsung sp1604n, 160gb ide) from the old computer and now trying to put it in the new one, via a raid card. The computer says it need to be formatted. Even if i attached to the on-board ide channel it is the same deal. I have lot of data in it. How would i avoid this and get the computer to read the drive?
To make it worse, i do not have a backup. Btw, raid card and bios identify the drive. It is xp having problems with this.
Posted On: 03-22-2009, 12:40 PM . View 1 Replies .