1.5TB 2nd HDD fails to format

[lrogers287]

Hello
I am trying to format my seagate 1.5TB drive in my HP pavilion 6047c (Narra 3 Mobo) using
Windows Vista. It hung after about 1 TB or so. I broke it into two volume - I picked 732GB arbitrarily.
The first one completed the format and is Healthy & active. The second one hung probably around the same location. Is there a tool to check the physical layer and block out bad sectors? Any other troubleshooting tips welcome....

 

[cmichael138]

See if this helps

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

 

[fzabkar]

I suspect that your chipset or your drivers may be affected by a 1TiB limit.

See Q6:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HDD_Capacity_FAQ.html

 

[lrogers287]

So I followed cmichael's suggestion and downloaded seatools. I had to undo the partitioning (no big deal at this point) and ignore a few bad sector complaints (that were at the end of the storage ~1.54xxx TB). Throw in a few reboots due to seatools hanging and eventually it self-discovered the full amount. Thanks for the help!!!

 

[lrogers287]

Best answer selected by lrogers287.

 

[cmichael138]

Thank you

Glad you were able to get it to work.