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My Second Hard Drive wont format

Posted: 09-25-2008, 12:18 AM
Pay-chekk
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I just built a system with vista 64 and installed 2 hard drives. My
system drive is a WD raptor 300G and my media drive is a Samsung 500G
drive. Vista installed ok, but when I go to format the Samsung in vista
it will not format. Any ideas on how to format the drive so I can store
large files on it.
Thanks
Mikey


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Re: My Second Hard Drive wont format
Posted: 09-25-2008, 01:46 AM
"Pay-chekk" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> I just built a system with vista 64 and installed 2 hard drives. My
> system drive is a WD raptor 300G and my media drive is a Samsung 500G
> drive. Vista installed ok, but when I go to format the Samsung in vista
> it will not format. Any ideas on how to format the drive so I can store
> large files on it.
> Thanks
> Mikey
>
>
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> Pay-chekk

Use the disk management in 'Administrative Tools', and don't forget to
initialize the disk first..


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Re: My Second Hard Drive wont format
Posted: 09-25-2008, 04:42 AM

Thanks Mike, I forgot to initialize the HD. All is good. Thanx again.
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> Thanks Mike, I forgot to initialize the HD. All is good. Thanx again.
> Mikey
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You're welcome..


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