"Spuggy88" <Spuggy88@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm using Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire laptop, and recently I lost
> access to half my hard drive. I rang my manufacturers support line, and
> they
> told me how to create a new vloume using disk management. However, when i
> double click it, it says it needs to be formatted. After waiting a long
> time
> (twice!) for the volume to format, it reaches 100% completion and then an
> error message apears saying 'Windows cannot complete the format'. This
> happens when i try Quick Format too. Upon clicking OK, i get a further
> message saying 'Check to see that the disk and drive are connected
> properly,
> and make sure the disk is not read only'. The disk is certainly not read
> only, so can anyone suggest where i go from here?
> I can see the drive in MyComputer etc. but cannot open or explore it. In
> Properties, it says the volume is 0 bytes big! And it should be 50GB.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Spug
I would guess that the hard drive is dying. If the laptop is in warranty
I'd advise contacting Acer again and getting it repaired. If not a new hard
drive would be a round £42. tp £50.00 for a 80Gb one (depending on whether
S-ATA or IDE), and get your data copied over to the new drive.
Trev