- Feb 28, 2006
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I just bought a new secondary hard disk today and need help!! It is a WD 250G Sata II drive (WD2500JS). My system : Asus A8N-E, AMD 64 3200+, Corsair Value Select 512Mx2, ATI X700 series video card.
The hard disk has been physically installed into the PC case. Windows XP (Home) recognizes it a new hardware. I go into Disk Management utility and new drive is present. I enable the drive. So far so good. I then try to create a new partition roughly the size of 200G. Hard disk starts to format - but stalls at 87%. Cannot cancel formatting, and PC hangs / freezes on shut down. After hard restart via restart button on front of PC, I try formatting the partition again - this time it stalls at 10%. I try using another SATA connector on the motherboard with same results.
I have tried this a number of times with no success - it now stalls around 10% or less. What can I do??
The hard disk has been physically installed into the PC case. Windows XP (Home) recognizes it a new hardware. I go into Disk Management utility and new drive is present. I enable the drive. So far so good. I then try to create a new partition roughly the size of 200G. Hard disk starts to format - but stalls at 87%. Cannot cancel formatting, and PC hangs / freezes on shut down. After hard restart via restart button on front of PC, I try formatting the partition again - this time it stalls at 10%. I try using another SATA connector on the motherboard with same results.
I have tried this a number of times with no success - it now stalls around 10% or less. What can I do??