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Author Topic: Formatting Hard Drive  (Read 7191 times)

Spellbound

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Formatting Hard Drive
« 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?
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johsm67

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Re: Formatting Hard Drive
« Reply #1 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....)
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Spellbound

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Re: Formatting Hard Drive
« Reply #2 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.
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dropdead

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Re: Formatting Hard Drive
« Reply #3 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.
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