HDD wont initialize
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Onethenumber2
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HDD wont initialize
I have this old Seagate 10 gig HDD that I know works. I put it in my comp to use as a backup drive. Set it all up in the Bios, that was fine. I can hear it spin up and windows sees it. Device manager lists it and shows it has no problems. Disk management detects the drive but it cant initialize it. What's going on? What should I do?
XP 1600+ @1606 Mhz, GIGABYTE Mobo WD 60GB 8MBc, 512 MB pc 2100 DDR, GF 2 Ultra, Win XP Pro, CDRWx40
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings, which thinks nothing (is) worth a war, is worse.
-John Stuart Mill “The Contest in America”
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings, which thinks nothing (is) worth a war, is worse.
-John Stuart Mill “The Contest in America”
Re: HDD wont initialize
Originally posted by Onethenumber2
I have this old Seagate 10 gig HDD that I know works. I put it in my comp to use as a backup drive. Set it all up in the Bios, that was fine. I can hear it spin up and windows sees it. Device manager lists it and shows it has no problems. Disk management detects the drive but it cant initialize it. What's going on? What should I do?
I would try a low level format outside of windows..or try to boot from 98se boot disk and partition/format it using fdisk/format command.....then boot into windows to see if it's detected..still though llf then that would be best imho
Re: Re: HDD wont initialize
Originally posted by Amro
I would try a low level format outside of windows..or try to boot from 98se boot disk and partition/format it using fdisk/format command.....then boot into windows to see if it's detected..still though llf then that would be best imho
Zerofilling is definitely the way to go from there.
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Onethenumber2
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ok! > goes to find low level formatter
XP 1600+ @1606 Mhz, GIGABYTE Mobo WD 60GB 8MBc, 512 MB pc 2100 DDR, GF 2 Ultra, Win XP Pro, CDRWx40
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings, which thinks nothing (is) worth a war, is worse.
-John Stuart Mill “The Contest in America”
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings, which thinks nothing (is) worth a war, is worse.
-John Stuart Mill “The Contest in America”