Problem with formatting Seagate Harddisk under Win XP Pro

Problem with formatting Seagate Harddisk under Win XP Pro: Posted by Klaus Kragelund on November 3rd, 2003; Hi there

I have a AMD Athelon 2400+ computer with Windows XP Pro. I am using a
Seagate ST3120022A (120 GB), ATA100 disk. The motherboard is an EPOX
8RDA+ one.

I have used the Windows XP Pro setup to divide the disk into
partitions and Windows has itself formatted the c drive. The c drive
is 30GB and another drive, d, is 70GB and e drive is 20GB. C and E
drive is formatted and working correctly and windows is up and
running, but I cannot format the d-drive. It simply stops when
approaching approx. midway through the formatting....

Anyone got a hint to whats wrong or am I faced with a defective disk?

Thanks

Niels Brøndsted; Posted by Rod Speed on November 3rd, 2003; Klaus Kragelund <klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:881355e2.0311031027.47fab2be@posting.google.c om...

It probably is a defective drive. Run Seagate's diagnostic on it.; Posted by Michael Hawes on November 4th, 2003; Are you using FAT32? WinXP will not format a FAT32 partition greater
than 32Gb. Micro$oft do not reccomend using FAT32 partitions greater than
32Gb. NTFS is more efficient. If you really MUST use FAT32 you will have to
use a Win98 boot disk with FORMAT.EXE on it.

Mike.

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