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Format a blank drive in windows?

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Dillusion

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I dont own a floppy drive, and i just attained a 200GB SATA seagate drive from my room mate. When i install it and boot up to windows, it detects it fine and asks to format it.

Problem is- The capacity is only seen as 37GB and states that the disk cannot be formatted. This leads me to believe i need to FDISK it but i have no floppy...

Any way to run FDISK in DOS in Windows XP Sp2 to format this drive?
 
I tired to do it through Disk Management, And i got it to partition correctly and i set it to Active, but everytime i try to format it with NTFS Quick format it says it cant do it...ANy ideas?
 
Its a long shot, but is large disk support enabled?
Also, if you can get hold of the Seagate CD that comes with retail drives and use that to set it up. The disc is only a few MB, so if you can find someone with a copy of it, emailing the disc image shouldnt be a problem.
 
RavenD said:
Its a long shot, but is large disk support enabled?
Also, if you can get hold of the Seagate CD that comes with retail drives and use that to set it up. The disc is only a few MB, so if you can find someone with a copy of it, emailing the disc image shouldnt be a problem.
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You can download the Seagate install disc HERE
 
Crosshairs said:
You can download the Seagate install disc HERE
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Even easier. Last time I tried to fine the install disc, could only find bootable ISO that was useless when I mounted it in Windows, and an online util that didnt include the tools needed in the given situation either.
 
Sometimes, you have to do a long format.. Uncheck the "quick" and give it a try..
 
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