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More info?)
No problem. Unfortunately, I've already tried your suggestions, either on my
own initiative, or prompted by Seagate tech support. Thanks anyway, though.
"Len" wrote:
> Sorry, wasn't trying to bite your head off. Anyway, assuming your SATA
> controller supports LBA and assuming that you have SP1 installed it should
> work OK. You may have to do the registry tweak that can be found on the
> MSKB or through Google for enabling LBA - not sure if this will help.
>
> One last thing you can do is try getting the diagnostic SW from Seagate and
> check the drive. They also probably have a program with the capability of
> formating it as well. These are about all of the ideas that I have. Some
> PATA have jumpers on them limiting the functional size of the drive to work
> on non-LBA HW/SW configurations but do not think SATA drives have same. You
> might check though just to be sure.
>
> Good Luck, Sorry I can't be of too much assistance.
> Len
>
> "thefinn" <thefinn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C067C50A-E77D-4CFB-AF30-79F0147E629B@microsoft.com...
> > Easy now. No need to bite my head off.
> >
> > It didn't work in the sense that it got exactly as far as trying to format
> > the drive through Disk Manager: at the end of the formatting process, it
> > simply said "Windows was unable to format the drive". Interestingly,
> > there's
> > no problem formatting FAT32 partitions, but I'd prefer to have the option
> > of
> > larger partitions than 32 GB.
> >
> > System info:
> >
> > The drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160 GB drive. I'm
> > running it on a PCI SATA controller (Silicon Image SiI 3112). Motherboard:
> > EPOX 8K3A (Via KT 333 chipset).
> >
> > "Len" wrote:
> >
> >> If you want help with your system then answers like "Didn't Work" will
> >> not
> >> get you far! What exactly didn't work" The CD didn't boot, you did not
> >> get
> >> an install screen, XP setup could not see the drive/partition could not
> >> partition could not format or just gave you the finger on your monitor!
> >>
> >> A bit more specific information, any error messages or info about your
> >> hardware would be useful!
> >>
> >> Len
> >>
> >> "thefinn" <thefinn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:E0F15687-1CA5-4A35-8970-FC49CA1777F0@microsoft.com...
> >> > "anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >> >Boot up with your XP CD, remove all partitions from that
> >> >> HD, create a new
> >> >> >partition, then format the HD with NTFS.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >"Schony" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> >> message
> >> >> >news:1890d01c44b02$34a91310$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> >> >> I am replacing an 80 gig hdd with a new 80 gig drive
> >> >> but
> >> >> >> no matter what I seem to do I keep getting the error
> >> >> >> message " the format failed to complete " or the other
> >> >> >> one is " windows cannot complete the format " or
> >> >> another
> >> >> >> one is " the disk in drive d cannot be formatted ". I
> >> >> am
> >> >> >> trying to format in NTFS, in fact I dont have an
> >> >> option.
> >> >> >> The new drive is a seagate drive. I have used their
> >> >> >> sofware to format it and I get the message, " the drive
> >> >> >> is formatted and ready to use " hoever windows gives me
> >> >> >> the message " this drive is not formatted, would you
> >> >> like
> >> >> >> to format now? " and so it goes on and on. Help please
> >> >> I havnt tried that. I will and I,ll let you know how I
> >> >> get on. Thanks
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I just tried that. Didn't work.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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