oy! 75GXP problem fresh off the RMA Line

dowxp

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just got the 45gb back and i popped it in. the gay stuff happens. win2k format doesnt work in ntfs or win2k. so i pop it into win98 command line and fdisk shows 11gb free, 45 avail. i go delete to allocate the free space and only lets me create 11gb MAX. so i try to format that and it gives me media error. so i go back to win2k and run parition magic 6 and it gives me error 307 whatever that is. so now i just popped it into my sisters and let win2k setup format it in NTFS and hopefully it will format it correctly.

funny thig though, i ran DFT and no error.. it gave 0x00 return. meaning i guess, no error. on basic and advanced tests. the drive is refurbished. possible bad drive?
 

dowxp

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oy? win2k said it was damaged so i deleted it and reallocated it to ntfs. finished and i went to win2k and saw it worked. deleted the winnt folder though. but doesnt matter. i wont put data on it until it looks clean. now im formatting it via win2k to fat32.
 

JohnnyPastrami

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Not what I want to hear. I just RMA'ed my 45G yesterday. If i get a bad one back, it's the last IBM I buy for a long time :(

Sorry to hear about it, let us know what you find...


Johnny