"davidjchuang" wrote:
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>
> Spuggy88;663954 Wrote: Quote:
> > 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 have trouble reading your post. You did say "hard drive", but which
> one? There is the OS C: drive, and there is the local D: drive. OR, you
> actually mean CD/DVD E: drives ,since you mentioned someting about "read
> only" ?
>
>
> --
> davidjchuang
I mean the D: drive, NOT the DVD drive or the drive holding my operating
system. Sorry for confusion.
After talking to acer support, i managed to get the D: drive back, but it
needs to be formatted before i can use it. Again, the support guy told me it
can't be done in Windows, but i need to download fdisk or partition magic.
any suggestions on which one?
and also, what is the difference between IDE and SATA external drives?
Thanks