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HELP! DISK FORMATTING PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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mjs22

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I am trying to format my hard drive and it is not letting me get through the FDISK portion. It is a WD 60.0GB 5400RPM hard drive and I am wanting to partiton it up into 3 partitions.

Each time I try to run FDISK it runs completely through the "Verifying Drive Integrity" BS and then it asks me if I want to use the maximum amount of space for the primary DOS partition and I answer NO and it starts running through the verifying drive integrity BS again and then hangs up.

What gives....Has anyone else seen this problem?
 
Perhaps you may want to try the latest version of FDISK, that is designed to cope with larger hard disks.

You can download it directly from Microsoft here.
 
I have tried 3 different start-up disks...I saw that utililty on MS web site last nite and downloaded it. I am going to give it a try!
 
No...you need to decompress it first. The new FDISK is inside that package.
 
Yeah....you need to decompress it under Windows. If you are still having problems with decompressing, email me.
 
Is it a brand new drive? I had a problem like that with a WD drive once. I had installed Linux on it and wanted to FDISK it and put windows back on and FDISK would hang. I eventually fixed it but I don't remember how. It was a long time ago.
 
I had a program on my laptop forgot what it was called ... but under Windows you could set-up Partitions and stuff. So I'd install it with 1 partition then try to find something similiar to what I'm talking about. Maybe it was "Disk Administrator" or something .... It came my my Latitude CPt ...

This may be totally off but thats why I'm guessing.
 
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