HELP: How to Format from RAW to NTFS ?!

[Omide]

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]

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

 

[DelJo63]

how is it installed? USB external enclosure, external IDE, or internally?

External USB can be a chore to format.

 

[Omide]

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