Another Hard Disk Not Ready!!!!!!!!

[darkwolf]

I have a large HDD, 6.44G. everytime i try to reformat it gets to 51% then I get a Hard Disk Not Ready format terminated error.

but If i make more than 1 partition it works fine.

WTF is up with this?

[Igor M]

Hi,

In what system you try to format? Did it support FAT32? May be it just incompatability of Format utility with FAT32?


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Good luck, Igor M

[PJ]

Did it support FAT32?

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but 51% of 6.4GB is approximately 3.2GB. FAT16 however only supports drives up to a maximum of 2.1GB (or thereabouts, I can't remember exactly).

Darkwolf, when you fdisk your drive, do you get something like this:

http://www.wantree.com.au/~shroomer/fdisk_startup.jpg

If you don't, then I suspect your OS doesn't support the FAT32 file system, and you will be unable to format your drive as 1 large partition.

However, as a possible workaround, perhaps you can format the 2 partitions seperately, and use a program like Partition Magic to join the 2 partitions together? This would of course require an OS that supports FAT32.

Hope this helps,
PJ