Hello, and thanks in advance for your help. System: HP Pavilion a6130n desktop 3GB memory Win Vista 32 Home Premium
I have been through three WD2002FAEX 2TB drives that cannot fully format. Windows disk management, Acronis TrueImage WD edition, or EaseUS Partition Manager can complete a full format. WD Diagnostics reports "too many bad sectors" and fails formatting at about 54% of the drive's capacity. I have setup two logical partitions on the drive, and can get about 1TB in one of the partitions, but nothing will format the other partition. I replaced the SATA cable, but the end result is the same. All 3 drives were manufactured in Thailand, though did not keep track of the manufacture dates. WD support has not offered up any new solutions. In the LinkedIn WD forum, one of the responses was that it was a known issue with my nForce mother board (Nvidia name ECS MCP61PM-HM,HP name Nettle2-GL8E) and to update the BIOS, which I did using the HP support site, but still won't format the second partition. I am doing an in-place upgrade of the OS from Vista 32 bit home premium to Win 7 32 bit home premium this weekend, and maybe the Win 7 drivers will resolve the issue, but has anyone had experience with this/solution in case the upgrade does not work? Thanks again for reading through this lengthy post :) Cheers! Alberto ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
