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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: Cannot format Hard Drive in Windows XP
Ok guys a noob question here. I've taken out my 160gb Seagate hdd from my Xbox (which I sold) and have put it in my External hdd case and it only shows 7mb! WTF?
I know its to do with the Xbox formating but can't seem to fix it.
Help me please.
XboxXXX
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:
*bump* WOW! Holley Mutha! I posted this like 1hr ago and its shot down the active topics list.
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject:
What it shows 7Mb what are you trying to do? so i can make sense of what your trying to get at. _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:25 am Post subject:
Well I got a 160gb HDD and I'm trying to reformat it. I did this using Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 and it only shows up as 7mb (thats the max partition size)
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:
try putting the harddrive as a slave in your computer and format it with Xp if you have it. _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:
Ok I thought of doing that. Will give it a go.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:32 am Post subject:
Let me know if you have any problems _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:37 am Post subject:
When I gog into Device manager and say populate it says it's unreadable. Doesn't show in Localdrives either.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:
was fatx still on the drive when you used Norton PartitionMagic 8.0? _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:
wait your harddrive could be one that need the jumper totaly off try that. _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:
HDD has Jumper off to be in Slave mode.
I get this error in Partition Magic as it loads
hdd.gif
Description:
Error in Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
Filesize:
39.13 KB
Viewed:
0 Time(s)
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:47 am Post subject:
ok your going to have to get a dos based harddrive erasing program that goes on diskette or cd and wipe the drive. The programs are not hard to find. _________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:50 am Post subject:
Yeh I'll need to use fdisk, right? Can this be done in recovery mode from Windows XP cd?
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:52 am Post subject:
xp doesnt have that ablity, trustme I tried, ill look for one for ya. _________________
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