Need help formatting Smartdisk

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by jonnym77, Mar 16, 2005.

  1. jonnym77

    jonnym77 Geek Trainee

    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    I have recently acquired a Smartdisk crossfire 160GB drive. I need to format it on my PC but each time I try it gets so far and then just freezes everything. Does any1 have any ideas why this keeps happening and what i can maybe do about it????
     
    jonnym77, Mar 16, 2005
    #1
  2. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

    Likes Received:
    59
    Trophy Points:
    63
    are you doing this from inside windows or in dos?
     
    Sniper, Mar 16, 2005
    #2
  3. jonnym77

    jonnym77 Geek Trainee

    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Im doing it from windows - going into disk management and selecting to format the disk from there
     
    jonnym77, Mar 16, 2005
    #3
  4. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

    Likes Received:
    59
    Trophy Points:
    63
    Do you have the Windows XP CD? if you do, try this!

    1. Booting from the CD (will have to go into bios to boot from CD)
    2. Choose the Recovery Console (R)
    3. At the dos prompt type: "format x:" (without the quotes and replace x with the drive letter!, Important input the correct drive letter!)

    This may or may work so post again!
     
    Sniper, Mar 16, 2005
    #4
  5. jonnym77

    jonnym77 Geek Trainee

    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    thanks sniper will let you know how i get on
     
    jonnym77, Mar 16, 2005
    #5

Share This Page