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A bad hard drive?
I had my Vista Home Premium 64bit running on a stripped raid setup
using two Samsung 80GB drives. I was getting lots of odd behavior and file corruption so I replaced both hard drives and my system is running very smooth right now. I decided to use a Seagate DOS utility to check out the Samsung drives and both passed the long read test. However when I started up Vista to format and use these hard drives I ran into a problem. Vista showed the one drive as "not initialized" and there is no way I can see to initialize this drive. Is there a way to initlialize this drive or should I send it for replacement? Also does anyone know if Samgsung provides a DOS utility for checking out their hard drives? The second drive seems fine and is formatting as I type. Al |
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A bad hard drive?
I did find a Samsung Hard Drive utility to check out this drive and it
reports my hard drive has NO errors. I still have no idea how to initialize this drive. Al On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:14:54 -0700, Alfred Kaufmann wrote: I had my Vista Home Premium 64bit running on a stripped raid setup using two Samsung 80GB drives. I was getting lots of odd behavior and file corruption so I replaced both hard drives and my system is running very smooth right now. I decided to use a Seagate DOS utility to check out the Samsung drives and both passed the long read test. However when I started up Vista to format and use these hard drives I ran into a problem. Vista showed the one drive as "not initialized" and there is no way I can see to initialize this drive. Is there a way to initlialize this drive or should I send it for replacement? Also does anyone know if Samgsung provides a DOS utility for checking out their hard drives? The second drive seems fine and is formatting as I type. Al |
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A bad hard drive?
To continue... I did used the Samsung utility to do a low level
format on this hard thinking that if I installed a new hard drive the Microsoft wizard would automatically initialize this drive. No such luck! I looked at the help instructions again and they read. "right-click the disk you want to initialize and then click initialize disk" You can right-click all day and that initialize disk option will not show up! It was only by accident that I right-clicked on the box next to the box showing the hard drive and this Initialize option showed up. I thought that Microsoft programmers would follow certain standards with their menus so that things are easy to find, like select the disk, click on the ACTION menu and you should see all the possible actions you can take. You should not have to search around with your mouse in a window like some idiot looking for the right spot to click! Ak On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:54:17 -0700, Alfred Kaufmann wrote: I did find a Samsung Hard Drive utility to check out this drive and it reports my hard drive has NO errors. I still have no idea how to initialize this drive. Al On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:14:54 -0700, Alfred Kaufmann wrote: I had my Vista Home Premium 64bit running on a stripped raid setup using two Samsung 80GB drives. I was getting lots of odd behavior and file corruption so I replaced both hard drives and my system is running very smooth right now. I decided to use a Seagate DOS utility to check out the Samsung drives and both passed the long read test. However when I started up Vista to format and use these hard drives I ran into a problem. Vista showed the one drive as "not initialized" and there is no way I can see to initialize this drive. Is there a way to initlialize this drive or should I send it for replacement? Also does anyone know if Samgsung provides a DOS utility for checking out their hard drives? The second drive seems fine and is formatting as I type. Al |