Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

« previous next »
Pages: [1]
  
Go Down

Author Topic: HD won't format NTFS  (Read 1666 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Minwah

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7662
  • Last login:January 18, 2019, 05:03:20 am
    • MAMEWAH
HD won't format NTFS
« on: September 03, 2004, 09:49:00 am »
I'm trying to format & install XP on a machine at work...but for some reason it won't format in NTFS (forget the exact message but gets to 100% done then says the disk may have errors).  It seems to format OK in FAT32 tho...

Does anyone know what may cause this error (& how to fix)?

Does it matter if I use FAT32 (I have always gone with NTFS for XP before)?

Any advice would be great :)
Logged

JackTucky

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1613
  • Last login:January 04, 2021, 12:00:58 pm
  • Soon I will post that I am a triathalete
Re:HD won't format NTFS
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2004, 10:09:43 am »
I had the most wacked problems once reformatting my MAME machine.  Sometimes it would finish the format, then die on install, other times the format would get to 100% then fail.

 Turned out it was a bad IDE cable.  I haven't bought and IDE cable in years.  Staples had some funky ones for like $20 bucks.  

I had to search around for a nice cheap one that would break again in a couple years.

Art
Logged
Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.

fredster

  • Grand Prophet of Arcadeology
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2267
  • Last login:February 16, 2019, 04:28:53 pm
  • It's all good!
Re:HD won't format NTFS
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2004, 10:49:23 am »
I had trouble with a western digital HDD like that.  The firmware wouldn't support it or something.  I switched to a Maxtor and it was fine.

I went to WD's site, even zeroed the drive out, still the same crap.

Logged
King of the Flying Monkeys from the Dark Side

Mameotron

  • Guest
  • Trade Count: (0)
Re:HD won't format NTFS
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2004, 01:42:50 am »
Hmm, I would suspect the drive, cabling, controller.  I recently installed XP Pro and formatted with NTFS on about 30 computers at work.  I only had 2 failures, one was a controller fault and one was the drive (western digital).  All the successful formats were Maxtor drives.

I used to think all drives were the same, but recently I'm beginning to question the quality of the smaller western digital drives.
Logged

Harry Potter

  • Smite-bait
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2844
  • Last login:May 27, 2024, 03:33:28 am
  • Sober until banned. Can post but still can't read.
Re:HD won't format NTFS
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2004, 02:32:38 pm »
When in XP setup, try Quick Format in NTFS. I had a similar problem and that seemed to fix it. If it doesn't work, your system probably doesn't support large(r) drives or is just stuffed.

Hope that helps
Logged
Now in a tasty new flavour.

Zakk

  • Gosh, that's a real nice... ooh look, a penny! -- That Zakk is Just Mean
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2472
  • Last login:Today at 12:46:49 am
Re:HD won't format NTFS
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2004, 03:41:03 pm »
If this helps: my main drive for XP is formatted FAT32 (I haven't had to wipe the system since I installed XP, and I have been too lazy to do the command line conversion to NTFS).

 I just installed a secondary 160 gig drive and did the whole thing from inside windows, and it worked fine.  However, perhaps you can format it FAT32 and then convert?  The command line for conversion is

convert [volume] /fs:ntfs [/v] [/cvtarea:FileName] [/nosecurity] [/x]

Hope this helps too!
Logged
Back for nostalgia, based on nostalgia.
Pages: [1]
  
Go Up
« previous next »