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0mike   08-19-2009 at 01:57:31 AM

I run Vista and have an ATA HD, a 1 TB SATA hard drive, and am trying to add a 1.5 TB SATA HD for a total of three physical hard drives (all Seagates). All work fine but the third 1.5 TB drive is correctly recognized, sized, initialized, but I can never format it all the way. I can partition, re-size the partitions, and even format all but the final partition, regardless of its size. I even tried just one single partition and it got to 73% formated and then hung. This is my second 1.5 TB seagate I've tried (exchanged the 1st). Anyone know how to get this drive formatted?

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r_manic   08-19-2009 at 09:53:04 AM

It could be an issue with your motherboard, the SATA port you connected it to, or the cable you used. Try moving the hard disks around, plugging the one that won't format completely into a different port.

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xaira   08-19-2009 at 10:10:39 PM

try a 3rd party partition manager

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r_manic   08-20-2009 at 05:06:25 AM

-like GParted

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