Hello all,
I recently bought a second hand 20 gig maxtor HDD. It came with win98 on it. When i placed it into the computer and tried to start it I was getting all kinds of errors... i figured it was a bad installation. I decided to only use it as a spare HDD for my good computer (I was building a second comp out of all my spares) and thought I would format it.
Every time I go to format it, wether it be CMD Prompt or Disk Manager or simply right clicking and going "format" it always hangs at 13%
So I thought I would just select all files and hit delete (Big mystake). Then i tried to istall win XP on it. I managed to do so but its also corrupt and wont work properly and still wont format, even through installing XP it says (an OS already exist etc etc)
All i want to do is Format this drive and clean it of all files on it!!!!!
Comp. Specs
WinXP SP2
AMD Athlon 3000+ (2.0 GHz)
160gig HDD
GeForce 7600 GS
1GB Ram
Please someone help me out,
Thanks in advance
Nathan
I recently bought a second hand 20 gig maxtor HDD. It came with win98 on it. When i placed it into the computer and tried to start it I was getting all kinds of errors... i figured it was a bad installation. I decided to only use it as a spare HDD for my good computer (I was building a second comp out of all my spares) and thought I would format it.
Every time I go to format it, wether it be CMD Prompt or Disk Manager or simply right clicking and going "format" it always hangs at 13%
So I thought I would just select all files and hit delete (Big mystake). Then i tried to istall win XP on it. I managed to do so but its also corrupt and wont work properly and still wont format, even through installing XP it says (an OS already exist etc etc)
All i want to do is Format this drive and clean it of all files on it!!!!!
Comp. Specs
WinXP SP2
AMD Athlon 3000+ (2.0 GHz)
160gig HDD
GeForce 7600 GS
1GB Ram
Please someone help me out,
Thanks in advance
Nathan