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Hi, I'm trying to install a new hard drive, and I can go in and create a new partition for it, and then when I try to access it, Windows says it needs to be formatted first, which I try to do, and then windows fails and returns the error "windows was unable to complete the format", I've tried a number of partition-programs as well. Does anyone have any idea on how I can get this new drive to work?

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Hi Mechromancer,

Have you tried the Disk Management part of Windows? This is normally the best option for new hard drives.


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Yes, I'm using disk-management, and I get the same error.
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Alrighty then...

What is the exact error message?


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"windows was unable to complete the format" or "windows failed to complete the format successfully"
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Hi Mechromancer!

What branch is the harddisk?

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I don't know what you mean by Branch, but it's 300 GBs, Maxtor, ATA, and assigned the letter F.

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