Need help formatting Smartdisk

jonnym77 · March 16, 2005, 2:02pm

I have recently acquired a Smartdisk crossfire 160GB drive. I need to format it on my PC but each time I try it gets so far and then just freezes everything. Does any1 have any ideas why this keeps happening and what i can maybe do about it???

Sniper · March 16, 2005, 4:24pm

are you doing this from inside windows or in dos?

jonnym77 · March 16, 2005, 4:45pm

Im doing it from windows - going into disk management and selecting to format the disk from there

Sniper · March 16, 2005, 5:44pm

Do you have the Windows XP CD? if you do, try this!

Booting from the CD (will have to go into bios to boot from CD)
Choose the Recovery Console (R)
At the dos prompt type: “format x:” (without the quotes and replace x with the drive letter!, Important input the correct drive letter!)

This may or may work so post again!

jonnym77 · March 16, 2005, 5:52pm

thanks sniper will let you know how i get on