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I'm posting on behalf of Lithium381, for the record.
I recently purchased two 300gb Maxtor drives from newegg. Put 'em in my new machine build, bios see's them, great, windows setup sees them, great. It can'tpartition or format them though .....either one, says "drives may be damaged" so i bring them to my brothers machien, same thing, not able to partition them nor format them(using an external USB enclosure, but we've done it before) is there something i don't know aobut? these drives are both PATA...i think it's JUST past my 30 days too((since i was waiting on other parts i didn't install them yet) any insight?
I recently purchased two 300gb Maxtor drives from newegg. Put 'em in my new machine build, bios see's them, great, windows setup sees them, great. It can'tpartition or format them though .....either one, says "drives may be damaged" so i bring them to my brothers machien, same thing, not able to partition them nor format them(using an external USB enclosure, but we've done it before) is there something i don't know aobut? these drives are both PATA...i think it's JUST past my 30 days too((since i was waiting on other parts i didn't install them yet) any insight?