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From: cronoklee on 30 Mar 2010 15:27 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, Ciarán
From: Jan Alter on 30 Mar 2010 16:43 "cronoklee" <cronoklee(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:96b378cf-c215-4f51-a07d-6fab2069c3cb(a)g4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... 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 First thing that comes to mind is that you have XP service packs updated to 3. Second thing is if you created a new partition on the drive first and then went to formating. Third is (if the previous thoughts aren't helpful) that the drivemaker for your new disk may have a utility that will partition the drive. -- Jan Alter bearpuf(a)verizon.net
From: Flasherly on 30 Mar 2010 17:38 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, > Ciarán 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.
From: TVeblen on 30 Mar 2010 17:58 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?
From: Mike Easter on 30 Mar 2010 19:35
cronoklee wrote: > 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 |