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Can't Format Hard Drive
Name: iamwec Date: January 30, 2009 at 15:45:07 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 2.392 GHz / 510 MB Product: Dell / DIMENSION 2400 Subcategory: Hard Drives
Comment:
I have a Windows 98SE computer. I am upgrading it to Windows 2000. When I try to format the computer, it gets to 74% done and then hangs. I have tried running KILLDISK free, same story. It hangs on 74%. This is after I have tried to convert the hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS, where it also hanged and I had to turn the computer off. Any ideas? There is one thing that I haven't tried yet and that is to put it as a slave drive in another computer and format the drive in Windows. Will this work?
Name: iamwec Date: January 30, 2009 at 18:42:02 Pacific
Reply:
I just put the hard drive as a slave in another computer and formatted it that way through Windows. When I try to install Windows 2000, I just "leave the current partition in tact (No Changes)" and it lets me install it, but it doesn't if I try to format outside of Windows (KillDisk, Acronis, Windows Partition Manager (On the Windows CD). I don't know what went wrong but it works now. Thanks!
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