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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: morbid_bean on March 31, 2008, 10:26:14 AM

Title: Maxtor 40Gb Hard Drive Will not format?!
Post by: morbid_bean on March 31, 2008, 10:26:14 AM

I will try to format a hard drive in dos... "format c:"   and it will be frozen at 0% for hours and nothing will hapen....and when i try to format it in windows as a slave...it will not progress. Whats up?

Title: Re: Maxtor 40Gb Hard Drive Will not format?!
Post by: Spoiler on March 31, 2008, 10:33:22 AM

Is this a slave drive? If not how did you "boot" into Dos?

Normally this is done with a boot floppy or a CD if this is your "C" drive.

You can't boot the machine into windows and than try to format it's self.

Title: Re: Maxtor 40Gb Hard Drive Will not format?!
Post by: morbid_bean on March 31, 2008, 11:14:17 AM

i booted w/ a windows Cd....

Title: Re: Maxtor 40Gb Hard Drive Will not format?!
Post by: Dias de verano on March 31, 2008, 12:39:08 PM

Hard drives don't last for ever - it could be broken.

Title: Re: Maxtor 40Gb Hard Drive Will not format?!
Post by: homer on March 31, 2008, 04:39:57 PM

im judging, due to its capacity, that it is an older drive. Dias de verano may be correct, assuming you hooked it up correctly and correctly set the jumpers.