Personal Computers Questions

How do I format my new hard drive?

by on March 7, 2010

Q: How do you format a new internal hard drive you want just for additional storage? I have an hitachi deskstar SATA 2.0tb.

My operating system is Windows XP Pro 64-bit. I have tried to use computer management’s disk management and I have tried right clicking on the hard drive and format on “my computer” but neither one works all the way. The best I have got is it saying 100%, but then it stops and says there was a problem. I have checked on the drivers and they are the newest one the computer can find.

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One Response to “How do I format my new hard drive?”
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    What your doing is correct. If you’re getting formatting errors like that then there is likely a problem with the harddrive.

    You’ll probably need to work through Hitachi’s troubleshooting tips starting with their Drive Fitness test diagnostic software and going down the list from there.

     

    Mark (Uber Geek) says: on March 7, 2010 at 8:34 pm