Recent content by rjbarry

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    Should I do something?

    Ok... it has been an adventure. Tried a dozen different times and a few different software packages to format this disk but it always choked with IO errors for any partition created past the 1 TB mark. Here is a summary of my last 3 attempts that I felt might be helpful to others. Attempt 1...
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    Should I do something?

    Oops - I was responding to the other poster while Voo posted. I guess that answers my question. Maybe I will reboot and then do a quick format for the first 50% of the unformatted region - since that seemed to be fine. Then I will start a format for the rest of the disk - I can always...
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    Should I do something?

    Thanks for the quick reply! It looks like my average is hovering right around 1 (though occurring in a spiked pattern on the line graph.) I selected physical disk 1 and it showed the drive letters of the two already formatted partitions, so I'm assuming that I am using this tool correctly...
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    Should I do something?

    Background: I bought a WD Caviar Green 2TB disk, tried to format it and it gave tons of IO errors. So I took it back to the store and exchanged it. On the new one, using the built in Vista Disk Management tool, I created two 50 GB partitions at the front of the disk (I'm going to install two...