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Drive cannot find sector requested
Name: Bill Date: June 30, 2003 at 13:42:24 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 500mhz
Comment:
I took a 30Gig hard drive out of my old computer and installed it as my primary slave on this one. Both drives have XP installed on them and i boot up off of the master. I can read all the files that pre-existed on the slave, but I can't write to it. I keep getting the error "Drive cannot find sector requested." Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Name: billymancella Date: June 30, 2003 at 14:24:09 Pacific
Reply:
I just tried formatting the drive by right clicking on it under My Computer and doing a format. It goes to 100% then says "Unable to format". Now, when I try double clicking the drive, it says "this drive is not formatted." and I click to format it and it gives me the same "unable to format" error.
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