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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If it's Western Digital use their free DLG (Data Lifeguard) programs which may work on other brands as well. I've never worked thru the frustrations of FDISK successfully either. DLG is easy to understand and just plain works. It is not a sophisticated tool so it cannot repartition without erasing the data. I've never heard of any freeware that does. Check out all the Drive Utilities:

• www.MajorGeeks.com -- Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
• www.MajorGeeks.com -- Drive Utilities

And Data Lifeguard is hyperbolic hype. It's just a partioning and formatting utility tossed in for their customers who just bought a new drive. It has no protective features.


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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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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I managed to get the drive formatted using Fat32 file system. It took 2 hours to format a 40gig hard drive. Another 3 hours just to install windows 2000. I don't know why it took that long to format and install an os. The drive partition fine using FDisk. I do have a new problem with 2000 now. When I went to install the driver for my video card, windows says that the driver is not the correct one when I know it is. I want to getting the computer going enough so I can at least go online with it again.


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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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 --


Windows is not always right,,,  if you are sure the driver is right you can do a 
quick check, see if you can use the 256 colors this will tell you the driver will 
work if not and you can only get 16, then you will need to update the driver,   goto 
driverguide.com and have a look around..or the Mfg. of the video card (device)





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On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 9:21 am, Anthony wrote:

>I managed to get the drive formatted using Fat32 file system.  It took 2 hours to 

>format a 40gig hard drive.  Another 3 hours just to install windows 2000.  I don't 

>know why it took that long to format and install an os.  The drive partition fine 

>using FDisk.

>

>I do have a new problem with 2000 now.  When I went to install the driver for my 

>video card, windows says that the driver is not the correct one when I know it is. 

> I want to getting the computer going enough so I can at least go online with it 

>again.

>

>

> 

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Does anybody here know of any good free programs that I can use to test the computer to make sure everything is ok and working correctly?


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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I can't answer your question (which I stumbled on by accident), but you really should start a separate thread for this question, and the previous one. By burying them under an unrelated subject, you severely limit the chance that the right expert will see the question and provide an answer. Aloha


On Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 8:58 pm, Anthony wrote:
>Does anybody here know of any good free programs that I can use to test the computer
>to make sure everything is ok and working correctly?
>
>
>

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Anthony - did you solve your problem? I'm betting you had/have a hardware issue. 
You never mentioned why you formatted in the first place - usually its due to problems 
with current installation. if you then get problems during the install/early use 
(eg, driver install), nearly always a hardware issue. Unfortunately I know of no 
magic wand - just process of elimination (though RAM is a common culprit - but can 
be any hardware item).






On Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 8:58 pm, Anthony wrote:

>Does anybody here know of any good free programs that I can use to test the computer 

>to make sure everything is ok and working correctly?

>

>

> 

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