Hard drive Takes Hours to format

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Ockerr wrote

The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner couldnt
format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7 hours I
have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe its
stuffed.

Very likely, see what samsung's diagnostic says about it.

I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk,

Surely it isnt taking that long with fdisk ?
Maybe you actually mean dos format after fdisk.

is there another way to bring it back to life.

Likely not.

The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do they Just Die like
that?

Yes, thats the most common way they fail now.

Ockerr wrote:

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers


Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a






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Ockerr wrote:

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after
7 hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old,
Maybe its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to
bring it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss
treated, Do they Just Die like that?


Cheers
Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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Ockerr wrote:

Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.







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Ockerr wrote:


Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after
7 hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old,
Maybe its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to
bring it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss
treated, Do they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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Well I think we have someone who knows something.

A Samsung SCSI drive?

ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL!

YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a






"CJT" wrote in message ...
Ockerr wrote:

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after
7 hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old,
Maybe its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to
bring it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss
treated, Do they Just Die like that?


Cheers
Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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"CJT" wrote in message
Ockerr wrote:

Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.

Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.








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Ockerr wrote:


Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after
7 hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old,
Maybe its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to
bring it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss
treated, Do they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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Folkert Rienstra wrote:

"CJT" wrote in message

Ockerr wrote:


Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.


Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.

Sector size would.








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Ockerr wrote:



Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after
7 hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old,
Maybe its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to
bring it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss
treated, Do they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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After all the comments that were made he

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....791cb fac538f

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

Previously bxf wrote:
After all the comments that were made he

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....791cb fac538f

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.

Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?

Arno