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"D" Partition does not support /format

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Orly   08-21-2008 at 04:08:48 PM

Yep got this strange error after partitioning my hard disk. Once it came to actually formatting each partition, the C foratted find but D would not support.

This is a new hard disk as the other one died.

System I'm running is

AMD Athlon 2.8
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
ATI Radio 9800 Pro 256MB
Maxtor SATA II 300 80g <--new

The system is about 3 years old.

Do I need to update or reset the bios? I must also point out that I'm only running one hard disk. There are no pins on the Hard Drive and I've left the MOBO to figure out the boot master.

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Orly   08-21-2008 at 04:10:58 PM
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I must add the the old hard drive was a Maxtor SATA II 150 80g so slightly different.

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wheelthrown   08-21-2008 at 10:03:09 PM
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which one is C and D?
Also are you atempting to RAID these dissimilar drives?

I would just put in new one... install os... then add second and let os format is then... btw what os r u using?

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Orly   08-22-2008 at 01:15:04 PM
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I'm using Windows XP Pro. I only have 1 hard disk installed which is the new one so not running a raid. I've made two partitions on the one single drive. I can format the C partition just fine but D just wont format at all.

The C partition I've set to 20% and D to 80%.

This is a new hard drive so thats the only change I've made to the system. I'm going to try and do a fresh install from the Windows CD and see what happends.

Like I said earlier my first suspicion that something was amiss was when the BIOS wasn't registering the drive correctly.

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wheelthrown   08-25-2008 at 07:24:10 PM
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you can format boot drive from with in windows xp wut r u useing to format?

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