Formating prob. PLZ help

[Redeyee]

I have installed a WD 80 gig hard drive in a new pc. I have windows Xp installed on 10 gig partition, and have 5 gig fat 32 partition for the ghost image. the rest is for storage, approx. 60 gig. Now when i go to format this partition in XP it runs and gets to 100% then fails to finish and i get this "Format did not complete successfully" i have tryed to do a quick format and i have even partitiond this drive in half to see if i could get half of it to format. Both pars. fail. any Ideas. PLZ

 

[Redeyee]

so no one here has any info for me on what to try?

 

[XRdirtHead]

Have you tried to boot to your winxp cd and format form there or just in windows?

 

[Abhi]

If i were you , i would try deleting that partition, reforming it, and then format.

 

[Jeff H]

Redeyee. is this the first time the drive has been formattted? If you haven't previously formatted the partition w/ which your having problems, I don't think you can do a Quick Format. I ran into this yesterday, trying to do a Quick Format on a new drive, to which I wanted to Ghost my current drive. It appeared that a QF did the job, but I couldn't get Ghost to work properly. Once I did a full format on the drive (and partitions) all went well.