My new seagate 320gig cannot be formated successfully

[3005981]

I have a new seagate 7200rpm 16mb cache 320gig hard disk. I tried to format it using the xp installation disk.

After the formating is completed, xp installation disk try to reboot pc and start the xp installation process. I stop the installation.

Then I try to format the hard disk (connected as slave) using disk management in xp. I got the message "format is not successful"

I try format again using disk management and after it reach 100%, my pc freezed

What should I do?

 

[betunn]

Does the HD come with a Disk?
Try another HD formatting utility.

 

[Slobogob]

1. Install the service packs.
2. Get the mainboard drivers installed.
3. Run windows update.

 

[runswindows95]

Download Gparted:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828&release_id=562326

Burn it to CD, boot from that CD, and format the drive.

 

[3005981]

I will try download from seagate

 

[3005981]

when I use seagate discwizard to partition and format I got error "Failed to write to the sector 625,137,344 .........etc of the hard disk 2

 

[DXsocko007]

Just get a low level formattting program like ProTools 4.23 formatt the drive. SHould fix all problems

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

I assume you have the latest service pack installed?

If you have the latest updates it sounds like to me the drive is bad. Seagate has an awesome warranty of 5 years so you should be fine. Just RMA if you can't return it to where you got it.

Sounds like a dead drive to me.

 

[mostid]

I found a similar problem with an ExcelStor 320G, and a Hitachi 250G mounted in an Icy Dock external USB drive for my laptop. The first time, the 320G partitioned and formatted fine. Then a few months later, it stopped being readable and couldn't format or do anything. I thought the drive was bad, so swapped it with the 250G only to find the same problem. Turns out my Pantech wireless AirCard was the culprit. Removing the aircard, I was able to perform the format just fine. Don't know if it matters, but thought I'd bring up my experience (since this is one of the forums I found when searching for my problem).