How To Format External Hard Drive On Windows Xp

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formatting an external hard drive (xp pro)

Old 01-19-05, 02:thirty PM

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formatting an external hard drive (xp pro)

i am looking for some insight why this happened. i put an unformatted hitachi deskstar in a firewire enclosure and repeatedly failed attempts to format it (every bit NTFS). it was correctly identified past both disk management and partionmagic. quick format (by both programs failed immediately). full format high-strung after 99% (presumably after checking the deejay and then setting up the file organisation). the drive was correctly gear up to master. sectionalisation magic reported "error 514 unknown error in formatting" while windows ever so helpfully reported "unable to successfully complete format". format (normal and quick) also failed from the command line.

in order to format the bulldoze, i placed it on the secondary ide controller equally slave and formatted without any bug.

any idea what caused the failure while the drive was in the enclosure but not while on the ide chain? the drive is completely accessible at present in the enclosure, so i do not retrieve the controller there is the trouble. searching google last night did not really explain the problem (except that some people have noticed it). btw the controller is the AMS electronics d3 (i think) and i believe it uses an oxford chip.

thanks for whatsoever input.
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Old 01-xix-05, 02:36 PM

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Big bulldoze? Bigger than 128 gig? Maybe the firmware on the chipset or on the controller doesn't have LBA48 support. Some of those older ones can't exist upgraded via firmware either, yous but take to get a new enclosure.

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I've had the same thing happen with an external enclosure. But it formatted merely fine in the PC. Information technology wasn't a matter of the 137GB limit either equally it was a 120GB drive. Information technology happened with 2 drives too because I returned the first one thinking it was defective.

The drive does work fine in the enclosure though, it just couldn't format in it.

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Big drive? Bigger than 128 gig? Maybe the firmware on the chipset or on the controller doesn't have LBA48 support. Some of those older ones tin't be upgraded via firmware either, you lot just have to get a new enclosure.

information technology does have lba48 support in the chipset (IIRC). the entire 160GB is visible (both every bit RAW prior to format and every bit NTFS after format).

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