Unable to format 400gb HD - Urgent Help Please!

[s_chiba]

I have installed a new 400gb Seagate Barracuda HD and set it as a slave drive on my KT4V motherboard. My OS is XP sp3. and an 80 wire IDE cable is used. Both drives set to cable select.

My problem is that although I can see it registering ( fully - 400gb )in the bios and under disk management, I get a “Windows is unable to complete format” message when NTFS format ( quick/or full ) is attempted.

I did manage to format the drive in SAFE mode but when I restarted windows in normal mode and tried to access the drive I recieved a “disc is corrupted/unreadable” type message!

However, now it has reverted to the “the disk in drive D is not formatted. Would you like to format” message

After attempting “quick format” again it now ends up saying the disc in drive D cannot be formatted.

Many thanks for any help. I’m desperate.

[donkey42]

@s chiba

I have installed a new 400gb Seagate Barracuda HD and set it as a slave drive on my KT4V motherboard. My OS is XP sp3. and an 80 wire IDE cable is used. Both drives set to cable select.

good, CS is best (IMHO)

@s chiba

My problem is that although I can see it registering ( fully - 400gb )in the bios and under disk management, I get a “Windows is unable to complete format” message when NTFS format ( quick/or full ) is attempted.

i think this problem goes back to XP SP2, because i’ve heard even Vista has problems with HDDs, what the prob is, well XP could / can only address (see) 137 GB, & 400GB is obviously more

the long term solution:

slipstream your XP CD (& integrate the large HDD drivers into a new XP CD (legal))

the sort term solution (quick temp fix)

obtain a driver disc to address the full 400GBs