re: Hard drive formatting failure
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8787 messages posted)
My first guess is the same as Steve's, the drive should have come with a disk containing
utilities, one of which would be a drive tester. See what it says.
On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 10:19 am, Nevada Cooke wrote:
>I just bought a new 1.5TB internal hard drive and tossed it in my computer. I'm
trying
>to format it (by doing a full NTFS format, not a quick one) and whenever I leave
>it to format, my computer ends up freezing, usually around the 70% mark. The entire
>system just locks up. It's done this about 4 times since last night now. Any ideas?
>
>When I first plugged it in I was asked to choose between MBR/master boot record
(if
>I can recall from memory) and one other option of which I can't remember, but I
chose
>MBR. Don't know if that might be the problem.
>
>For specs, I'm running a Q9300 at 3GHz on an nVidia nForce 790i Ultra with 8GB of
>1333MHz DDR3 memory, a BFG GeForce GTX 285. In terms of hard drives, I've got a
150GB
>Raptor drive in my first SATA port, two 500GB drivers in 2 and 3, a 1.5TB in my
4th,
>a DVD drive in the 5th and the newest 1.5TB is in the 6th.
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- Hard drive formatting failure (Nevada Cooke: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 10:19 am)
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