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re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive
Monday, June 18, 2007 at 5:28 pm
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Posted by DEX (11739 messages posted)


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --

Did you have win2k on the HD b/4 decided to start over ? If so you will need to reboot with the boot disk and remove ALL the partitions b/4 you start over. Then setup the fat table ( format the HD)

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On Monday, June 18, 2007 at 7:41 am, Anthony wrote:
>Yesturday I formatted my hard drive on my computer because I wanted to reinstall
>the OS. I then decided to created an extended partition so I went into FDisk and
>deleted the old partition and created a new Primary and Extended partition. I then
>rebooted the computer using my boot disk and went to format the new partitions but
>the partitions are not being formatted or its formatting the drive very slow. The
>progress % kept sitting at 0. I thought about letting it go for a few hours but
>that only got the drive 6% formatted. Any ideas on what I can try?




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Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Anthony: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 7:41 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Anthony: Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 7:41 am)
*re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (dhm: Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 2:41 pm)
*re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (DEX: Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 5:28 pm)
-re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Anthony: Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 9:21 am)
*re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (DEX: Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 10:30 am)
-re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Anthony: Sat, Jun 23, 2007, 8:58 pm)
*re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Clyde McAllister: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 1:33 pm)
*re: Problems Formatting Hard Drive (Steve Dunn: Mon, Jul 2, 2007, 3:18 pm)
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