Unable to format...why?

lsang · #1 10-14-2003, 11:45 PM

I have recently partition my hard drive to 20GB and wanted to farmat it but the format process takes forever(After leaving for about 2 hours..still running at 0%). The HDD light just lights up continously.

Has anyone experience this before? Any solution on how to format hard drive properly?

Play_The_0dds · #2 10-15-2003, 12:07 AM

what are you using to format?

lsang · #3 10-15-2003, 09:44 PM

I used Win XP "Computer Manager" and also tried throungh "Win Explorer"

Anyone else can help me?

lsang · #4 10-17-2003, 09:44 PM

Anyone out there??

augie2 · #5 10-18-2003, 10:53 AM

Make a floppy boot disk you can get from bootdisk.com, boot from it then from command line enter "format \x" w/o quotes x being the drive letter you want to format.

chance · #6 10-18-2003, 07:27 PM

most versions of windows
A:>Format C:
98se
A:>Format C: /S
A:>Format C: /U

augie2 · #7 10-18-2003, 11:28 PM

Thanks chance, it's been too long without using DOS