I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
capacity, but larger?
I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format failed
to complete".

Any ideas appreciated!

could be a defective drive
"hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
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> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
> capacity, but larger?
> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
> failed to complete".
>
> Any ideas appreciated!
>

k, will post some chkdsk readings, see if they make any sense to someone.

"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> could be a defective drive
> "hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
> news:%23ULsxUsCGHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
>> capacity, but larger?
>> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
>> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
>> failed to complete".
>>
>> Any ideas appreciated!
>>
>
>

It sounds like it think it's bigger (more heads, cylinders etc) than the
drive really is. Can you manually set those parameters in the CMOS instead
of auto-detect?


"hh" <jjj@tt.net> wrote in message
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> I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
> capacity, but larger?
> I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
> Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format
> failed to complete".
>
> Any ideas appreciated!
>