XP Unable to Complete Formatting of External HDD

External Since: Jan 12, 2005 Posts: 1

Have a new 250 GB external Hitachi Drive connected by firewire to Dell
Inspiron running XP home. Used Disk Management to partition and format
new drive as storage. After a long formatting process XP gets to 100%
and then reports thay it is unable to complete formatting. Driving me
crazy. Any help would be appreciated.

External Since: Apr 07, 2004 Posts: 230

What file system? If it's FAT32, you'll get that message.

On 12 Jan 2005 21:13:59 -0800, pryan49 RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:

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>Have a new 250 GB external Hitachi Drive connected by firewire to Dell
>Inspiron running XP home. Used Disk Management to partition and format
>new drive as storage. After a long formatting process XP gets to 100%
>and then reports thay it is unable to complete formatting. Driving me
>crazy. Any help would be appreciated.