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From: cronoklee on 30 Mar 2010 20:55 On 31 Mar, 00:35, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: > cronokleewrote: > > I can see the drive in Disk Managment. > > What happens during the disk initialization phase? > > > However I cannot format the drive. > > You didn't give enough details starting with disk management > initialization sequence. > > -- > Mike Easter Hi All, thanks for the replies on this. I'm still not sure what the problem was but I've managed to get the drive formatted using This partition manager: http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm It took about 1 mintue and did it first time. Now why couldn't windows do that eh? Thanks again for the prompt help! Ciarán
From: Flasherly on 30 Mar 2010 23:11 On Mar 30, 5:58 pm, TVeblen <Killtherob...(a)hal.net> wrote: > On 3/30/2010 5:38 PM, Flasherly wrote: > > > > > On Mar 30, 3:27 pm, cronoklee<cronok...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi I'm using an old Dell dimension 2300 as a fileserver and I've > >> recently bought a new 1.5TB sata hard drive for it along with a PCI > >> 3port SATA adapter (the motherboard only has IDE ports by default). > > >> Anyway, I've done the install and there are no problems with drivers > >> or anything and I can see the drive in Disk Managment. > >> However I cannot format the drive. When I try windows (XP) spits back > >> "the format did not complete successfully." with no explanation. > > >> Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening?? > > >> Thanks, > >> Ciar n > > > Not sure what's up with that -- you got yourself one of them new- > > fangled drives with the new new industry FAT for Windows7? They > > require backwardly compatible steps to run on XP. > > Both XP and W7 use NTFS, don't they? > Do you have a link to read about that information? This stuff is different than XP. Look over on newegg at WD 1.5 or 2 -- lots of discussion. Do it 2 ways for XP, a jumper or their drive software. W7 supports it out of the box
From: Paul on 31 Mar 2010 03:31 cronoklee wrote: > On 31 Mar, 00:35, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: >> cronokleewrote: >>> I can see the drive in Disk Managment. >> What happens during the disk initialization phase? >> >>> However I cannot format the drive. >> You didn't give enough details starting with disk management >> initialization sequence. >> >> -- >> Mike Easter > > > > Hi All, thanks for the replies on this. I'm still not sure what the > problem was but I've managed to get the drive formatted using This > partition manager: > http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm > > It took about 1 mintue and did it first time. Now why couldn't windows > do that eh? > > Thanks again for the prompt help! > Ciar�n Were you attempting to format FAT32 ? If so, WinXP has a 32GB limit. But that isn't a technical limit, it is political. With third party utilities, you could format a 2TB disk to a single FAT32 partition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#FAT32 This is what I use for FAT32. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm For NTFS, Windows doesn't impose any artificial limits there. ******* Another article you might read, is the one about the new 4KB sector hard drives. Apparently, all the drives, regardless of size, will be using 4KB sectors, as there is an industry wide agreement now to that effect. Western Digital is one of the first to deliver these, and they say "Advanced Format" on the label on the drive. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888 Paul
From: TVeblen on 31 Mar 2010 07:07 On 3/31/2010 3:31 AM, Paul wrote: > cronoklee wrote: >> On 31 Mar, 00:35, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: >>> cronokleewrote: >>>> I can see the drive in Disk Managment. >>> What happens during the disk initialization phase? >>> >>>> However I cannot format the drive. >>> You didn't give enough details starting with disk management >>> initialization sequence. >>> >>> -- >>> Mike Easter >> >> >> >> Hi All, thanks for the replies on this. I'm still not sure what the >> problem was but I've managed to get the drive formatted using This >> partition manager: >> http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm >> >> It took about 1 mintue and did it first time. Now why couldn't windows >> do that eh? >> >> Thanks again for the prompt help! >> Ciar�n > > Were you attempting to format FAT32 ? > > If so, WinXP has a 32GB limit. But that isn't a technical limit, > it is political. With third party utilities, you could format > a 2TB disk to a single FAT32 partition. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#FAT32 > > This is what I use for FAT32. > > http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm > > For NTFS, Windows doesn't impose any artificial limits there. > > ******* > > Another article you might read, is the one about the new > 4KB sector hard drives. Apparently, all the drives, regardless > of size, will be using 4KB sectors, as there is an industry wide > agreement now to that effect. Western Digital is one of the first > to deliver these, and they say "Advanced Format" on the label on > the drive. > > http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888 > > Paul Hey Paul - do you know if you can still format these drives 64KB for video?
From: TVeblen on 31 Mar 2010 07:34
On 3/30/2010 11:11 PM, Flasherly wrote: > On Mar 30, 5:58 pm, TVeblen<Killtherob...(a)hal.net> wrote: >> On 3/30/2010 5:38 PM, Flasherly wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mar 30, 3:27 pm, cronoklee<cronok...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi I'm using an old Dell dimension 2300 as a fileserver and I've >>>> recently bought a new 1.5TB sata hard drive for it along with a PCI >>>> 3port SATA adapter (the motherboard only has IDE ports by default). >> >>>> Anyway, I've done the install and there are no problems with drivers >>>> or anything and I can see the drive in Disk Managment. >>>> However I cannot format the drive. When I try windows (XP) spits back >>>> "the format did not complete successfully." with no explanation. >> >>>> Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening?? >> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Ciar n >> >>> Not sure what's up with that -- you got yourself one of them new- >>> fangled drives with the new new industry FAT for Windows7? They >>> require backwardly compatible steps to run on XP. >> >> Both XP and W7 use NTFS, don't they? >> Do you have a link to read about that information? > > This stuff is different than XP. Look over on newegg at WD 1.5 or 2 > -- lots of discussion. Do it 2 ways for XP, a jumper or their drive > software. W7 supports it out of the box Jeez- you shut your eyes for a minute and everything changes.... This is a better read than the reviews: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-4k-sector,2554.html Just another rule for builders to know! |