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sparks219   10-10-2005 at 08:02:03 AM

My friend bought a USB 2.0 HD by Comstar. When I plug it into his or my system, windows XP finds the USB device, but does not display it as a hard drive. Inside device manager, the driver is installed properly, and the drive is recognized. The problem lies down to the drive isn't formatted or parititioned properly.

When I start Parition Magic 7.0 or 8.0, the program crashes with the error message "Bad Parition table data". So I used the windows XP start up disk to re-partition the disk, and I couldn't use it to format the drive for some reason.

So does anyone know how I can format the hard drive??

Thanks,

MIng

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sparks219   10-10-2005 at 04:09:16 PM
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I mananaged to get the HD to show up under My Computer when I initially turn it on. When I left click on it, windows says "THe drive is not formatted, would you like to format it??" When I click yes, windows says it cannot format the drive.

Do I have a dead HD?? Also, the message from Parition Magic "Error 100: Parition Table is Bad" is also a little worrying. I was tempted to take the drive out of the box, but it's an aftermarket solution, and I do not want to break the warranty sticker.

Cheers,

Ming

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sparks219   10-11-2005 at 01:31:13 AM
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Yeah, It's my friend's HD, and he never got it to work. However, it's past 30 days, so he may need to warranty the HD. I was just wondering if there was some way I could fix it.

Back to the store it goes :D

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