Cannot format new 200gb Hard disk

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does it see it in the BIOS? NO? Try a newer BIOS.

KK

"Milleniumaire" <phill@lcsltd2.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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.