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Jethro Jackson
Greetings,
I've read the other postings about this problem but they seem to
involve larger drives. I'm hoping there's a Windows XP expert out
there that can solve my mystery. Here's my situation:
I'm using Windows XP with all updates other than the new Security
Service Pack and recently installed a new 40gb Maxtor 6EO4OLO drive as
a Second Hard Drive. The drive was installed using the MapBlast 3
software and appears in both My Computer and Disk Management. It shows
as a "healthy" active drive with the letter "f:". It shows a capacity
of 38.28 with 100% free with a "No" under the Fault Tolerance column
and a "0%" under the Overhead column. The area in the File System
column is blank. (I knew from clicking on the "f:" drive while in the
My Computer area that the drive needed to be formatted) I right
clicked on drive f: while still in the Disk Management area and then
chose NTFS for the file type and Default for the Allocation Unit Size.
Then I started the format. It takes a little bit and reaches 100% but
then the message box pops up "The format did not complete
successfully". The drive shows up in Disk Management as Disk 1 with
my C drive showing as Disk 0. This has me baffled. I then used
Mapblast 3 again and set the drive up with two equal partitions. All
seemed to go well using the software but then the drive didn't show up
in My Computer or Disk Management at all. I then went back and set it
up as one partition, it once again appeared in My Computer and Disk
Management and tried formatting again with the same results. I then
tried a Quick format with no success. If anyone can help me through
this living Hell of a Nightmare it would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
Jethro
I've read the other postings about this problem but they seem to
involve larger drives. I'm hoping there's a Windows XP expert out
there that can solve my mystery. Here's my situation:
I'm using Windows XP with all updates other than the new Security
Service Pack and recently installed a new 40gb Maxtor 6EO4OLO drive as
a Second Hard Drive. The drive was installed using the MapBlast 3
software and appears in both My Computer and Disk Management. It shows
as a "healthy" active drive with the letter "f:". It shows a capacity
of 38.28 with 100% free with a "No" under the Fault Tolerance column
and a "0%" under the Overhead column. The area in the File System
column is blank. (I knew from clicking on the "f:" drive while in the
My Computer area that the drive needed to be formatted) I right
clicked on drive f: while still in the Disk Management area and then
chose NTFS for the file type and Default for the Allocation Unit Size.
Then I started the format. It takes a little bit and reaches 100% but
then the message box pops up "The format did not complete
successfully". The drive shows up in Disk Management as Disk 1 with
my C drive showing as Disk 0. This has me baffled. I then used
Mapblast 3 again and set the drive up with two equal partitions. All
seemed to go well using the software but then the drive didn't show up
in My Computer or Disk Management at all. I then went back and set it
up as one partition, it once again appeared in My Computer and Disk
Management and tried formatting again with the same results. I then
tried a Quick format with no success. If anyone can help me through
this living Hell of a Nightmare it would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
Jethro