paulettecerra
I have a Maxtor 250gb hard drive that won’t finish formatting. I took the hard drive from a 500gb LACIE external hard drive case.. The case had two 250gb drive to make up the 500 gigs and one drive went bad.
I’ve Tried doing a complete format in a drive kit, in a computer as a slave and as a master by it self with windows install disc..
I get a message (windows was unable to complete the format).. No error message.
I’ve Tried doing a complete format in a drive kit, in a computer as a slave and as a master by it self with windows install disc..
I get a message (windows was unable to complete the format).. No error message.
Posted Sat 23 Dec 06 @ 7:36 pm
sbangs
add me on msn il talk about getting u into dos and formating it the hardcore way
my msn is on my blog
my msn is on my blog
Posted Sat 23 Dec 06 @ 10:12 pm
paulettecerra
skyfxl wrote :
add me on msn il talk about getting u into dos and formating it the hardcore way
my msn is on my blog
my msn is on my blog
I'm going to gig.. I'll check it out in the AM... I did try with to format with windows install as if setting the drive up for the OPS.
Thanks
Posted Sun 24 Dec 06 @ 1:03 am
sbangs
how to hardcore format a drive
if you have
a floppy drive
http://www.dehning.com/download/utilities/bootdisks/boot98.exe
download this and create a 98 bootdisk
reboot
once the computer has started it will as you wheter to boot into dos
agree ,
it will now ask you what to do
choose
start windows 98 with cd rom support
in a moment you will see
A:/
type Fdisk
then you will see
a few options choose
delete a logical non dos partion
look for your external drive and delete all the partions
then restart follow all above steps up to fdisk
but this time create a dos partion
on the external drive
, now restart
now when the computer boots up choose 98 support
and when you see A:/ type vol info
it will tell you the what drives there are
once you know the label such as F:
type A/:F:
now it will say F:
Type format:F
now remove the disk
and boot your drive now should work :)
if you have
a floppy drive
http://www.dehning.com/download/utilities/bootdisks/boot98.exe
download this and create a 98 bootdisk
reboot
once the computer has started it will as you wheter to boot into dos
agree ,
it will now ask you what to do
choose
start windows 98 with cd rom support
in a moment you will see
A:/
type Fdisk
then you will see
a few options choose
delete a logical non dos partion
look for your external drive and delete all the partions
then restart follow all above steps up to fdisk
but this time create a dos partion
on the external drive
, now restart
now when the computer boots up choose 98 support
and when you see A:/ type vol info
it will tell you the what drives there are
once you know the label such as F:
type A/:F:
now it will say F:
Type format:F
now remove the disk
and boot your drive now should work :)
Posted Mon 25 Dec 06 @ 8:30 pm