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jason1407
 Post subject: " Format terminated " What problem can it be?
PostPosted: August 30th, 2007, 23:22 
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I'm using win 98 boot disk to check my 40GB Maxtor HDD. I able to do fdisk, deleted the old
partition and created a new primary partition.

I did a restart and try to format the HDD. But after 1%, it stop the formatting. Showing
" HDD not ready" & " Format terminated"

Can someone pls tell me what are the possible problem?


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cryoborgofthevenus
 Post subject: Re: " Format terminated " What problem can it be?
PostPosted: August 31st, 2007, 3:24 
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Weak/bad sector / Try check with MHDD

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rameez
 Post subject: Re: " Format terminated " What problem can it be?
PostPosted: September 1st, 2007, 15:33 
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Location: In ur HDD !
Format terminated occurs when there is a series of bad sectors in one row .
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arfaizy13
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format terminated occurs when there is bad sector in this area,
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RJARRRPCGP
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Especially with "Drive not ready" or to that effect, sounds like the HDD is giving the dreaded click of death. :evil:
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jason1407
 Post subject: Re: " Format terminated " What problem can it be?
PostPosted: September 18th, 2007, 4:09 
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Thk you for all the advice. Just one more question.

Will there be any solution to help save the HDD?
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cryoborgofthevenus
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Using MHDD, erase the entire hard drive from sector LBA 0 until end. If this process fails, there is no way to save the HDD.

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