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HELP: How to Format from RAW to NTFS ?!

Omide
12-20-2007, 08:23 PM
Hi 2 all genius
First of all >> Happy christmas to u ;)

I bought Hitach Deskstar and when i want to format to NTFS it will give error at end of format...it says >>>> Windows Unable to Format.


Any way ? :( any software ?!



Thanks,
Regards,
oMiDe

Ididmyc600
12-21-2007, 05:09 AM
Hi

Sounds like a bad drive, download the test tool from Hitachi from here

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm, run it on the drive and see what results you get.

Regards

Ad
12-21-2007, 05:09 AM

jobeard
12-21-2007, 12:24 PM
how is it installed? USB external enclosure, external IDE, or internally?

External USB can be a chore to format.

Omide
12-23-2007, 09:49 PM
Well atlast i formated it with Magic Partition.....and when i downloading a file from internet to the NEW HD.....when i restart my pc and i want to go to my New HD explorer it will give error :( it says {The Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable :(......what u think ?! the HD is damaged or it virus....i format 3time again but still giving this error :(

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