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Old September 12th 04, 01:22 PM
Wayne
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Default Cannot format new 200gb Hard disk

sounds like you need to check if your mobo support that size drive and if
you have the newest bios
Don't crosspost to 6 newsgroups!

Wayne

"Milleniumaire" wrote in message
om...
I have just installed a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200gb
(ST3200822A) drive to replace an old 9gb drive.

Windows XP Disk Manager recognises the drive and reports it as
186.31GB Unallocated. I can create a Primary Partition on this drive
to use up all 186.31GB, however if I also choose to format it then at
the very end of the format process I get the error

"Logical Disk Manager: The format did not complete successfully".

The drive appears in Windows Explorer and when I try to access it I am
told that it is not formatted and prompts me to format it - which also
fails.

I have also tried using Partition Magic 8.0 but this fails with Error
#514 Unknown error formatting volume during the final stage of
Updating System Information.

When searching the Net, the number 137GB kept appearing as a "large
disk" boundary which may cause problems, so I tried creating a
partition of 130GB and it worked, however this leaves me with 70GB of
wasted space! I am unable to create more partitions to use up the
extra space as the formatting fails.

I am running Windows XP SP2 (I also tried it with SP1 before upgrading
to SP2). The fact that windows CAN see the full size of the disk and
create partitions, but cannot format them seems curious.

I have run some Seagate diagnostic tools to check the disk and no
errors have been reported.

My machine spec. is:
Gigabyte GA-8IHXP Socket 478 ATX Rev 2.1
Intel Pentium 4 2.53ghz Northwood 512
768mb PC1066 Rambus Memory
Winfast A250 Utra TD Graphics
2 x DiamondMax+ D740X 40gb UDMA133 in stripped RAID array
Maxtor 90840D6 9gb
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
LG GDR-8163BB DVD Rom
LG GSA-4040B Super Multi DVD Drive
Windows XP Professional + SP 2

This appears to be a Windows XP problem, but is it possibly a
Motherboard restriction? (I would have thought not because windows can
see the whole drive, but just can't format it).

I have spent a whole weekend trying to resolve this problem so any
pointers would be useful.



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Old September 13th 04, 06:04 AM
WillieNillie
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My suggestion, even though the drive is not a maxtor, go to Maxtor's
website, and then Support, downloads, under utilities, you will find
"Maxtor Big Drive Enabler" even with SP1 installed I had problems
until I used this utility




On 12 Sep 2004 03:22:50 -0700,
(Milleniumaire) wrote:

I have just installed a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200gb
(ST3200822A) drive to replace an old 9gb drive.

Windows XP Disk Manager recognises the drive and reports it as
186.31GB Unallocated. I can create a Primary Partition on this drive
to use up all 186.31GB, however if I also choose to format it then at
the very end of the format process I get the error

"Logical Disk Manager: The format did not complete successfully".

The drive appears in Windows Explorer and when I try to access it I am
told that it is not formatted and prompts me to format it - which also
fails.

I have also tried using Partition Magic 8.0 but this fails with Error
#514 Unknown error formatting volume during the final stage of
Updating System Information.

When searching the Net, the number 137GB kept appearing as a "large
disk" boundary which may cause problems, so I tried creating a
partition of 130GB and it worked, however this leaves me with 70GB of
wasted space! I am unable to create more partitions to use up the
extra space as the formatting fails.

I am running Windows XP SP2 (I also tried it with SP1 before upgrading
to SP2). The fact that windows CAN see the full size of the disk and
create partitions, but cannot format them seems curious.

I have run some Seagate diagnostic tools to check the disk and no
errors have been reported.

My machine spec. is:
Gigabyte GA-8IHXP Socket 478 ATX Rev 2.1
Intel Pentium 4 2.53ghz Northwood 512
768mb PC1066 Rambus Memory
Winfast A250 Utra TD Graphics
2 x DiamondMax+ D740X 40gb UDMA133 in stripped RAID array
Maxtor 90840D6 9gb
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
LG GDR-8163BB DVD Rom
LG GSA-4040B Super Multi DVD Drive
Windows XP Professional + SP 2

This appears to be a Windows XP problem, but is it possibly a
Motherboard restriction? (I would have thought not because windows can
see the whole drive, but just can't format it).

I have spent a whole weekend trying to resolve this problem so any
pointers would be useful.


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Old October 1st 04, 01:06 PM
MikeyKs1
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It is not the Windows version, Nor the SP version, It is your BIOS.
ATA 100 supports a max of 137GB per hard drive, or array. ATA 133 is
what you need. It supports larger hard drives.

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Old October 2nd 04, 09:09 PM
Plowman
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Milleniumaire, I just registered on this site for the sole purpose of
bestowing one hundred blessings on you. I had the exact drive, exact
problem, and the Intel app uninstall was the exact solution. And if
you hadn't provided the answer, it would have been another three days
of well-intentioned but errant advice from my vendors. Thanks so
much.

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Old October 17th 04, 06:48 PM
Milleniumaire
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I always try to make the effort to share my solutions so I'm pleased
that someone has benefited from this. I know how frustrating it can
be to find exactly the same problem being reported by someone else but
to not have the solution made available.

Paul.

lid (Plowman) wrote in message ...
Milleniumaire, I just registered on this site for the sole purpose of
bestowing one hundred blessings on you. I had the exact drive, exact
problem, and the Intel app uninstall was the exact solution. And if
you hadn't provided the answer, it would have been another three days
of well-intentioned but errant advice from my vendors. Thanks so
much.

 




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