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rrcn · February 14th, 2004, 06:08 PM

Hey, I have an old 4GB ATA66 Seagate hard drive. I'm trying to format it but it wont pass 83% completion. I'm formating it with the windows cd. I tried XP and 2000 and both stop at 83%. I also tried hooking it up as a slave to a hd that has XP on it. The bios recognizes the HD but windows doesnt recognize the it. It also takes windows a long time to load.

Does anyone know what it means when it stops at 83%?

Ciryix MII 266MHz
Gigabyte G5SAA (latest bios)
4GB HD
64mb pc100
lite-on cd-rom

TIA

February 14th, 2004, 06:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
rrcn The FNG Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: SoCal Posts: 5,605	Unable to Format Hard Drive Hey, I have an old 4GB ATA66 Seagate hard drive. I'm trying to format it but it wont pass 83% completion. I'm formating it with the windows cd. I tried XP and 2000 and both stop at 83%. I also tried hooking it up as a slave to a hd that has XP on it. The bios recognizes the HD but windows doesnt recognize the it. It also takes windows a long time to load. Does anyone know what it means when it stops at 83%? Ciryix MII 266MHz Gigabyte G5SAA (latest bios) 4GB HD 64mb pc100 lite-on cd-rom TIA