Name: Kenny Date: 3/31/2005 8:22:21 AM (GMT-7) IP Address: 67.139.132.26 Message:
Have a dell dimension 8400 that needed a format and reinstall of XP Pro. It has one of those new SATA drives so I found the intel sata driver floppy creator off dell's website and got into windows setup. I deleted the partitions that were on it and created one new one and told it to format NTFS. It took over an hour (160gb drive) and got to 100%. Then it told me that setup was unable to format the partition. So not know what else to do, I thought I'd reboot and try again. Got in there again and tried to delete the new-yet-unformatted partition and it said it could not delete it, and then the partition list said setup cannot access the disk. Rebooted into setup again and after this I can't even get to the partition list anymore, after it loads the initial modules it says starting windows setup and it freezes there. I tried the maxtor maxblast setup utility which told me my drive was not ready for use and asked me if i wanted to set up so I said yes and chose XP with sp1, ntfs, and when it tried it failed. It suggested running diagnostics so I download maxtor's diagnostic program, which didn't see the disk at all. Then when I went back to maxblast, it didn't see the disk anymore. Dell techs had me run their express test, which threw a bunch of errors "Block# Uncorrectable Data Error or Media Unwritable" for a ton of blocks (we didn't let it finish checking). Then the dell ctrl-alt-d hard drive diagnostic said Fail-Return Code 7. The tech is sending a new drive. |
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