Second Hard drive problems

Posted: 01-22-2004, 01:42 AM

Wayne B

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I Have a second Hard drive on my machine with WinXP Pro
newly installed. Windows can see the drive (F) and I have
tried formatting it several ways but I keep getting a
message saying Windows was unable to complete the
formatting.

It will go for about 20 minutes for a 30gb Maxtor drive,
once it gets to 100% is when I get that message.

I appreciate any help.

Wayne B

Second Hard drive problems

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Robert

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Re: Second Hard drive problems

Posted: 01-22-2004, 03:09 AM

Wayne B wrote:

> I Have a second Hard drive on my machine with WinXP Pro
> newly installed. Windows can see the drive (F) and I have
> tried formatting it several ways but I keep getting a
> message saying Windows was unable to complete the
> formatting.
>
> It will go for about 20 minutes for a 30gb Maxtor drive,
> once it gets to 100% is when I get that message.
>
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Wayne B

_________________________________

Hi Wayne!
I had the same problem on XP Home with an external Maxtor HD.
I downloaded and installed MaxBlast 3 For Windows from
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/dow...xblast3win.exe
This utility was able to partition and format my HD completely without
any problem where XP had failed.
--
Cheers,
Robert

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