Format Terminated???

[Shadal]

UPDATE:
It's been stuck at 18% for over half hour..

Now what?!?!?!

[Mntsnow]

Was the drive dropped at any time? I have seen that error when there is a physical problem with a drive.

Use the Maxtor diag disk that came with the drive and check it for problem. If there is it will say so and give you a code for an RMA

[Shadal]

It's possible that the drive was droped.. when i recieved it, the corner where the IDE cable plugs in was bent in, so i had a hard time getting the IDE cable to plug in.
I didn't recvieve any disk with the drive, nor manual of any kind... It was bought from "bummer". (i'll be emailing him)

Shadal

[Fingers]

I've had that happen to me once before... and it had nothing to do with a damaged hard drive.

It was simply the boot disk I was using. I never did take the time to figure out if it was the old DOS version on the floppy having a compatibility problem with the new hard drive, or if it was actually a damaged file on the floppy.

It's worth a try?

[Shadal]

I've formated many drives in my time, and NEVER seen this error:

x:>Format C:
All Data.. yadda yadda yadda [Y/N]

Completed 10%
...then all of a sudden:...
Format Terminated
Drive Not Ready
x:>

it won't finish the format. This is a bran new Maxtor IDE 20GB

I did finally get it to go past 10% using windows 98 setup's format.. so far it's at 18% (taking forever) The drive was Fdisk'ed and everything is set correctly on the drive!

Any ideas why i was unable to format from the command line?

Thx,
Shadal

[elroy]

I had a similar situation once and it was a bad drive.