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can't format my external hard drive
I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer has recently decided to give up (i think the motherboard is bad), so I bought a new HP desktop that comes with Vista. I pulled out my old XP hard drive (which is partitioned into 2 virtual drives) and want to use it as an external disk. I used an external usb enclosure and pulled all my data off the drive (note the disk is working properly, no issues). By using the Vista Disk Management tool I was able to remove all the volumes and delete all the partitions (I was trying to merge it back into 1 disk). Now I have 1 memory chuck labeled as primary drive. When I try to format that drive I get an error saying something along the line of formatting was not completely or not successful. Has anyone had this issue before? I have a Hitachi drive, but as I've mentioned it was working with Vista before I decided to unpartition and delete all the volumes. It does show up as a drive in my computer but since it is not formatted successfully I can't use it. I tried to do the quick format as well as the full format. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bob -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
You have to create a new partition before you can format.
-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows Vista Enthusiast --------------------------------------------------------------- "hbob16" wrote in message ... I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer has recently decided to give up (i think the motherboard is bad), so I bought a new HP desktop that comes with Vista. I pulled out my old XP hard drive (which is partitioned into 2 virtual drives) and want to use it as an external disk. I used an external usb enclosure and pulled all my data off the drive (note the disk is working properly, no issues). By using the Vista Disk Management tool I was able to remove all the volumes and delete all the partitions (I was trying to merge it back into 1 disk). Now I have 1 memory chuck labeled as primary drive. When I try to format that drive I get an error saying something along the line of formatting was not completely or not successful. Has anyone had this issue before? I have a Hitachi drive, but as I've mentioned it was working with Vista before I decided to unpartition and delete all the volumes. It does show up as a drive in my computer but since it is not formatted successfully I can't use it. I tried to do the quick format as well as the full format. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bob -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
Connect the old drive up directly to a M/B port (IDE/SATA) on your new
computer. Can you work with it from there? If not, the drive is likely bad. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "hbob16" wrote in message ... I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer has recently decided to give up (i think the motherboard is bad), so I bought a new HP desktop that comes with Vista. I pulled out my old XP hard drive (which is partitioned into 2 virtual drives) and want to use it as an external disk. I used an external usb enclosure and pulled all my data off the drive (note the disk is working properly, no issues). By using the Vista Disk Management tool I was able to remove all the volumes and delete all the partitions (I was trying to merge it back into 1 disk). Now I have 1 memory chuck labeled as primary drive. When I try to format that drive I get an error saying something along the line of formatting was not completely or not successful. Has anyone had this issue before? I have a Hitachi drive, but as I've mentioned it was working with Vista before I decided to unpartition and delete all the volumes. It does show up as a drive in my computer but since it is not formatted successfully I can't use it. I tried to do the quick format as well as the full format. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bob -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
Did you creat a partition & format it within Disk Management or?
"hbob16" wrote in message ... I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer has recently decided to give up (i think the motherboard is bad), so I bought a new HP desktop that comes with Vista. I pulled out my old XP hard drive (which is partitioned into 2 virtual drives) and want to use it as an external disk. I used an external usb enclosure and pulled all my data off the drive (note the disk is working properly, no issues). By using the Vista Disk Management tool I was able to remove all the volumes and delete all the partitions (I was trying to merge it back into 1 disk). Now I have 1 memory chuck labeled as primary drive. When I try to format that drive I get an error saying something along the line of formatting was not completely or not successful. Has anyone had this issue before? I have a Hitachi drive, but as I've mentioned it was working with Vista before I decided to unpartition and delete all the volumes. It does show up as a drive in my computer but since it is not formatted successfully I can't use it. I tried to do the quick format as well as the full format. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bob -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
I did create a new partition. I just put that drive inside my new machine. Tried the quick format, same error, now I am doing a regular format. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks for those who replied -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
Try deleting all old partitions. Then create a new one and format the
partition. Does it work? If not, what is occurring? -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "hbob16" wrote in message ... I did create a new partition. I just put that drive inside my new machine. Tried the quick format, same error, now I am doing a regular format. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks for those who replied -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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can't format my external hard drive
The regular format worked *sigh*. I don't know why it wouldn't work over usb. Thanks for all who tried to help. -- hbob16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hbob16's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/hbob16.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1035891.htm http://forums.techarena.in |