Recent content by ryaninhb

Good point, will do. Is there any way that I could be screwing up the format and causing the failure? By using DOS FORMAT with /FS:NTFS, it is stable and avoids windows issues, etc. But then again, they are failing on me within 30 days of initial format... Any suggestions?

Help! Should I reformat it another way? Can a crashed drive ever be trusted again?

Fry's has this drive (120GB/8MB Cache) advertised (in Fountain Valley, CA at least) for $58, just a heads up.

Despite an inclination to label even myself a computing hardware moron, I have managed to render 2 Western Digital 160GB's totally unaccessible. I now need some advice from the guru's... I formatted this drive and the one that crashed before it in command prompt DOS mode, after FDISKing it...

I just spent the past two days trying to format my new IBM/Hitachi Hard Drive (180GB 7200RPM ATA133 8MB DESKSTAR), but am getting error after error. When I used Disk Management in WinXP, it stopped at 100% of the format, simply stating that the format had failed. I then tried using format...