Formatting does not finish

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Sheldon

I have been trying to format my Western Digital 160GB
Hard Drive in Windows XP PRO with the NTFS file system.
The formatting starts ok, but then seems to hang after
about 88-90 percent. Can anyone please tell me what
could be causing this? I have tried deleting the
partition, and then having the formatting add back in the
partition, but no luck?
 
With SP1. I recently reinstalled windows XP. I
formatted with the Windows XP CD in NTFS, then did all of
the updates, installed firewall and Norton and all
updates. That main drive seems ok and is on the main
primary IDE controller. I have a second 160 GB drive
that I use as storage of data files. This is the one
that I am having trouble formatting. I have used the
computer management console, tried formatting again, and
it went up to 86 percent and has gone no further. I
thought it may have to do with the Q331958 update from
Microsoft which I installed but still no luck!
Please advise???
 
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