hard drive formatting issues

S

Sean

Hi

I have an 80-gig hard drive in my server that struggles to format on
one of the FAT32 partitions. When all partitions are deleted and
re-created and the same size partitions are in place it struggles in
exactly the same spot 63% of the FAT32 partition.

Are there any freeware hard drive surface testing utilities available?

Is there a log that contains info when Windows 2000 server formats a
hard drive.

Will a low level format fix this error?

Any ideas or info would be graetly appreciated.

Regards

Sean
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

Sean said:
Hi

I have an 80-gig hard drive in my server that struggles to format on
one of the FAT32 partitions. When all partitions are deleted and
re-created and the same size partitions are in place it struggles in
exactly the same spot 63% of the FAT32 partition.

Are there any freeware hard drive surface testing utilities available?

Is there a log that contains info when Windows 2000 server formats a
hard drive.

Will a low level format fix this error?

Any ideas or info would be graetly appreciated.

Regards

Sean

Every disk manufacturer makes a disk diagnostic tool available
on his web site. This is the one you should use.
 
R

Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP

Also, how large is this volume that you are trying to format? W2K and
XP can only create FAT32 volumes that are 32GB in size or smaller.

hth
 

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