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#1 skullsy

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 11:37 PM

hi all
i recently purchased a new 1.5 tb western digital harddrive for my media player.
while i was formatting it the process was interrupted some how so i tried again.
it said format complete now drive is showing in my computer but says it has [0 free space & 0 used space.
so i tried again now get an error saying format did not complete.
driving me crazy
so any help would be great
thanks

#2 hamluis

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 12:59 PM

What exact steps...are you taking to format said drive?

The first step should be...delete any prior efforts that failed or yielded unsatisfactory results.

Second step, use NTFS, regular format (do not use short).

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