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Title: Formatting Hard Drive
Post by: Spellbound on February 22, 2010, 09:16:13 AM

I have tried several times to format a 200 GB WD hard drive that I took out of a laptop.  It just won't do it.  Always get "Format Error".
Wouldn't work with NTFS partitions on it or not.
Any ideas?

Title: Re: Formatting Hard Drive
Post by: johsm67 on February 23, 2010, 05:38:49 AM

Try to delete any present partitions on it first, and maybe format it in the laptop first to ensure it's working good!
(Use a bootcd with disk tools maybe, to check that it's ok....)

Title: Re: Formatting Hard Drive
Post by: Spellbound on February 23, 2010, 06:40:49 PM

Thanks.  I've already tried that...2-3 times.  No difference.  The drive works fine in a USB enclosure and attached to the laptop it came out of.

Title: Re: Formatting Hard Drive
Post by: dropdead on February 24, 2010, 07:28:48 AM

you have to delete any windows portions (NTFS, or FAT) then you can try with "gparted " to format the drive to "EXT3" this is a linux format, or you just let format the hard drive in the router.