- Maxtor One Touch 120GB rated, reads 642.46GB
- Posted by hh on December 27th, 2005
I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
capacity, but larger?
I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format failed
to complete".
Any ideas appreciated!
- Posted by BigJim on December 27th, 2005
could be a defective drive
"hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
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> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
> capacity, but larger?
> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
> failed to complete".
>
> Any ideas appreciated!
>
- Posted by hh on December 28th, 2005
k, will post some chkdsk readings, see if they make any sense to someone.
"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> could be a defective drive
> "hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
> news:%23ULsxUsCGHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
>> capacity, but larger?
>> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
>> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
>> failed to complete".
>>
>> Any ideas appreciated!
>>
>
>
- Posted by Dave on January 2nd, 2006
It sounds like it think it's bigger (more heads, cylinders etc) than the
drive really is. Can you manually set those parameters in the CMOS instead
of auto-detect?
"hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
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> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
> capacity, but larger?
> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
> failed to complete".
>
> Any ideas appreciated!
>
