My Hard Drive Won't Format

[SadxClown]

I have an 80gb Western Digital 7200rpm that won't format on my new computer. The drive is detected in bios and I have successfully installed Windows XP on a smaller older drive on the same computer. I've tried with the jumper on Master and CS and get the same result. Should I return the drive because it's ?

 

[Jerry944T]

What method are you using to format? There are several ways to format. What are you doing exactly?

 

[redbeard1]

What motherboard do you have? How are you trying to set it up? Ntfs, fat32, primary or extended partition?

 

[SemperFi]

Western Digital has a jumper setting for master without slave drive and another setting master with slave present. Do you have set correctly? I am assuming that you are trying to make it master.

 

[SadxClown]

I have an ASUS P4PE motherboard, I'm having the computer boot off of the CD and the only options I'm getting are to format as NTFS, and NTFS quick. I have the jumpers set correctly I'm trying to make it the Primary master hard drive

 

[LittleAl]

You're trying to install XP, right? If your drive is larger than 32MB, NTFS will be your only option.

 

[Willoughbyva]

If it is the only drive in the chain you might have to set it to "single" via jumpers.