On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:58:03 -0700, Spuggy88
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>"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
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>> 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" ?
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>> davidjchuang >
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>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? Any disk partition that Disk Management can create, it should also be
able to format. You have some kind of hardware problem.
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>and also, what is the difference between IDE and SATA external drives?
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>Thanks