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longlife

Post subject: Help:While formatting in XP my samsung 120GB HDD stuck at 2%

Posted: December 10th, 2010, 0:01

Joined: December 9th, 2010, 2:59
Posts: 241
Location: kolkata

While formatting during XP installation the SAMSUNG HDD 120Gb stuck at 2% and continue for 3 hours even.

Any remedy???

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pclab

Post subject: Re: Help:While formatting in XP my samsung 120GB HDD stuck at 2%

Posted: December 10th, 2010, 10:58

Joined: July 12th, 2010, 4:38
Posts: 1451
Location: Portugal

Change disk.

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Alexii

Post subject: Re: Help:While formatting in XP my samsung 120GB HDD stuck at 2%

Posted: December 10th, 2010, 11:20

Joined: October 28th, 2009, 14:35
Posts: 775
Location: Toronto

run MHDD scan on the drive. U will probably get a lot of bad sectors on the drive. It can be cut down a notch and made usable again, but u need tools for it. Its not worth it on a 120 GB drive. Cheaper to buy a new one.

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