Faulty hard drive
Posted by: Richard Lord on 31 August 2008
Hi all
I know this might not be the most appropriate place to ask a computer question, but there some pretty computer savvy folk in this forum who might be able to help me.
I have a brand new Dell 500 Gig hard drive that had Vista on it. Because I hate Vista, I have replaced this drive with another 500 Gig with XP. After re-validating, all fine. So I decided to re-format the previously pre-installed Vista drive, so it could be used as a second (backup) drive. But I cannot do it. Windows valiantly shows a progress bar, then stops and tells me (rather unhelpfully) that Windows cannot format this drive. Why not?
It certainly worked OK when it was the boot drive. Strange.
Richard
I know this might not be the most appropriate place to ask a computer question, but there some pretty computer savvy folk in this forum who might be able to help me.
I have a brand new Dell 500 Gig hard drive that had Vista on it. Because I hate Vista, I have replaced this drive with another 500 Gig with XP. After re-validating, all fine. So I decided to re-format the previously pre-installed Vista drive, so it could be used as a second (backup) drive. But I cannot do it. Windows valiantly shows a progress bar, then stops and tells me (rather unhelpfully) that Windows cannot format this drive. Why not?
It certainly worked OK when it was the boot drive. Strange.
Richard