Problem with formatting Seagate Harddisk under Win XP Pro

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Klaus Kragelund

Hi there

I have a AMD Athelon 2400+ computer with Windows XP Pro. I am using a
Seagate ST3120022A (120 GB), ATA100 disk. The motherboard is an EPOX
8RDA+ one.

I have used the Windows XP Pro setup to divide the disk into
partitions and Windows has itself formatted the c drive. The c drive
is 30GB and another drive, d, is 70GB and e drive is 20GB. C and E
drive is formatted and working correctly and windows is up and
running, but I cannot format the d-drive. It simply stops when
approaching approx. midway through the formatting....

Anyone got a hint to whats wrong or am I faced with a defective disk?

Thanks

Niels Brøndsted
 
Klaus Kragelund said:
I have a AMD Athelon 2400+ computer with Windows XP Pro.
I am using a Seagate ST3120022A (120 GB), ATA100 disk.
The motherboard is an EPOX 8RDA+ one.
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I have used the Windows XP Pro setup to divide the disk into
partitions and Windows has itself formatted the c drive. The c
drive is 30GB and another drive, d, is 70GB and e drive is 20GB.
C and E drive is formatted and working correctly and windows
is up and running, but I cannot format the d-drive. It simply
stops when approaching approx. midway through the formatting....
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Anyone got a hint to whats wrong or am I faced with a defective disk?
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It probably is a defective drive. Run Seagate's diagnostic on it.
 
I have a AMD Athelon 2400+ computer with Windows XP Pro.
I am using a Seagate ST3120022A (120 GB), ATA100 disk.
The motherboard is an EPOX 8RDA+ one.
Click to expand...
I have used the Windows XP Pro setup to divide the disk into
partitions and Windows has itself formatted the c drive. The c
drive is 30GB and another drive, d, is 70GB and e drive is 20GB.
C and E drive is formatted and working correctly and windows
is up and running, but I cannot format the d-drive. It simply
stops when approaching approx. midway through the formatting....
Click to expand...

Are you using FAT32? WinXP will not format a FAT32 partition greater
than 32Gb. Micro$oft do not reccomend using FAT32 partitions greater than
32Gb. NTFS is more efficient. If you really MUST use FAT32 you will have to
use a Win98 boot disk with FORMAT.EXE on it.

Mike.
 
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