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| Thread ID: 81683 | 2007-08-03 11:19:00 | Problem formatting hard drive. | Fishy (10540) | Press F1 |
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| 576232 | 2007-08-03 11:19:00 | I want to format a HDD that just has crap on it. But when I click format it gets to the end etc and then just says "Windows was unable to complete the format" Tried rebooting and doing it again, no luck. Help please :confused: Cheers. |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 576233 | 2007-08-03 11:26:00 | I take it, you're not trying to format the hdd, Windows is on?? It is another partition or hdd right? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 576234 | 2007-08-03 21:20:00 | Are you attempting to format from within windows, or via the commandline (froom a boot cd/disk)? (I think thats what Speedy was meaning:)) | Myth (110) | ||
| 576235 | 2007-08-03 21:49:00 | Within windows. But no I am not a complete idiot. I installed XP on a newer bigger HDD and want to format the the old one. I booted off XP on the new HDD and went to format the old HDD but it won't work. It doesn't matter that the old one has XP on it does it? Because I'm not booting of that HDD. |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 576236 | 2007-08-03 22:00:00 | fishy If there is nothing on the HDD you want and you need to format it create or download a windows 98 boot disk. if it has fdisk and format dos programs on it you can you should be able to format it with that/and or delete the partitions and re-create them albiet fat32 but XP can convert those. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 576237 | 2007-08-03 22:30:00 | This may help. When I go into disk management the HDD i'm running windows off now is labeled "Boot" And the HDD want to format is labeled "System" Is that why I can't format it? |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 576238 | 2007-08-03 23:38:00 | Whats Boot? C,D,E ? And whats System?? C,D,E etc? It should tell you the size of both, and if the newer hdd is bigger than the old, this will give you a clue which hdd to format. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 576239 | 2007-08-03 23:49:00 | Boot is D which i'm running XP off now. System is C. I want to format C. C is smaller than D. I am clicking format C. It doesn't work. |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 576240 | 2007-08-03 23:57:00 | Hmm you did jumper the old hdd to slave didnt you? And the new one to master?? And did you change the bootdisk in the BIOS to D?? The new hdd? It sounds like you havent done this, which is why C the hdd you want to format is saying System. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 576241 | 2007-08-04 07:42:00 | Boot is D which i'm running XP off now. System is C. I want to format C. Ooops. Thats why Windows won't let you. Start again. Make the new drive C:. Don'tr have the old one connected at this point. |
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