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?
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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?
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
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).Quote:
Did it support FAT32?
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