Format Terminated 1

[synchrononymous]

I have a friends really old toshiba laptop that has 2 removable hard drives. Neither one would boot, so I took the 1st one and using fdisk, delete, recreated a new partition and then I formatted it (500 Kb Fujitsu) installed W95 and it works like a charm. However I can't seem to format the 2nd HDD (2.0 GB Toshiba), it won't format past 2%. I get a NOT READY...FORMAT TERMINATED error. I've tried fdisk /mbr, even tried PQ Magic, all without success. If anyone out there may have a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[synchrononymous]

Oops, Type O...That should read 500 MB Fujitsu

 

[beyondsociety]

Try getting a low-level utility from the hard drive manufacturer and then using the software, test the hard drive, and then low-level format it. I had a problem before with dos format not being able to format my hard drive. so I low-leveled it and it worked fine. A low-level format re-creates the sectors, heads, and tracks on the disk.

It wipes out everything, so using format should work then. If it doesn't, then I suggest you have a bad disk and you will have to probally get a new one.

 

[synchrononymous]

I couldn't seem to find a low level format utility for Toshiba, however I did find a sort of generic one. Although it didn't work, either this disk really is bad or the utility that I need to use has to be specifically for a toshiba hdd. At any rate I'm just going to tell my friend that I think the hard drive has bit the bullet, and it's time for a new one. I got her other one up and running, so her laptop is at least functional.

At any rate,
Thanks Beyondsociety!

 

[dellisia]

You might want to try software from Gibson Research. Go to GRC.com and read up on hard drive antics and solutions. Steve works wonders for recalcitrant drives.

 

[nightowl17]

you can go to

http://www.maxtor

.com and download powermax for your LLformat Hope This Helps Solve Your Problem
nightowl17

 

[Grenage]

I am a fairly big fan of WDCLEAR, fixed a lot of issues for me in the past, although postly partition rather than format ones.

http://www.infotech.elblag.pl/ftp/wdclear/Wdclear nowy/WDCLEAR.EXE

is a place you can grab it from.

 

[beyondsociety]

Normally you should get a low-level format utility that your hard drive manufactur supports. You can use a generic low-level format tool, but sometimes it wont work or if you screw up and your hard drive is under waranty most manufacturs won't replace the drive.