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Windows was able to complete the format.

May 23rd, 2009

I get this error when trying to re-format my Maxtor external HDD. What can I do about it?

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May 23rd, 2009

Windows was able to complete the format!!
was able is good ,I assume you mean unable to complete ,tell us what you are doing to format the drive !

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May 23rd, 2009

Lol yea... sorry about that. My English is not so good.

I plug in it the drive, windows pops up and says "Windows needs to format the drive" I click "ok" run the wizard, after about 10 minutes of running it says "Windows was unable to complete the format".

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type this into start/ run "compmgmt.msc " with out the "quotes.
then in the left pane go to disk management and try formatting it there

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I tired from disk managment, when I did it got to 100 percent complete but then a popup came on and said "windows could not complete the format" (something along those lines, wasn't exactly the same as the previous error, but has the same gist to it)

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I tired from disk managment, when I did it got to 100 percent complete but then a popup came on and said "windows could not complete the format" (something along those lines, wasn't exactly the same as the previous error, but has the same gist to it)

ok, with the drive connected right click on its icon in mycomputer go properties and tools ,and check the disk for errors ,check off to fix any

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Re: Windows was able to complete the format.

May 24th, 2009

press win button+r to get the run window type cmd press enter
If you want to check the disk in drive D and have Windows fix errors,when console is running type:

chkdsk d: /f

If it encounters errors, chkdsk pauses and displays messages. Chkdsk finishes by displaying a report that lists the status of the disk. You cannot open any files on the specified drive until chkdsk finishes.

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Originally Posted by caperjack

ok, with the drive connected right click on its icon in mycomputer go properties and tools ,and check the disk for errors ,check off to fix any

When I tried it it just "closes" out. So I tried my Vista to do the same thing, and instead of closing out it says "the disk needs to be formatted, blah blah". So I can't check it without it being formatted....

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Originally Posted by FlamingClaw

press win button+r to get the run window type cmd press enter
If you want to check the disk in drive D and have Windows fix errors,when console is running type:

chkdsk d: /f

If it encounters errors, chkdsk pauses and displays messages. Chkdsk finishes by displaying a report that lists the status of the disk. You cannot open any files on the specified drive until chkdsk finishes.

CHKDSK doesn't work for RAW file types, if I recall correctly (chkdsk needs to have a normal format, I beileve)... which is what the system became when I tried formatting via disk managment like jack had said earlier. After it got to 100 percent and then couldn't finish formatting, it became RAW.

Either way, it didn't have a format to it to begin with, and I'm sure chkdsk needs a format.

EDIT- for the hell of it, I tired chkdsk it even though its RAW. No dice though.

Last edited by Helltech; May 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm.