aroman <aroman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to format a couple of 250GB hard disks using Disk Manager and it
>is failing to complete after getting to 100%. There is no specific error
>message code it just can't seem to complete. This has happened on two
>different makes of disk and similar sizes have previously been formated and
>used without problems.

Try to format from plain DOS. Get a DOS boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com and run FORMAT from a DOS prompt after you have
started the machine from this disk.