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Hello everybody, I'm new here, and this is my first post.
A friend and I have just built the identical tower which is basically,
Athlon 3700, Asus A8N-E, ATI graphics etc. All the bits from Overclockers.
We both have Maxtor 80gb sata drives, well I've got 2 and mine all went well and still is.
The other however has a problem when trying to format the new drive. This is the second drive as the first one (brand new) booted Win 2000 Pro when I first booted up to format. We decided to format it anyway but it went very, very slowly and working it out would have taken over 4 hours to complete so we gave up.
The drive was exchanged no problem as it was a returned item but the new one does exactly the same thing but does'nt even get to the formatting progress bar or whatever it's called.
I have tried this drive in my machine and it behaves the same. I have also put an old ide drive in the other machine and it formats no problem.
So, is it possible to get 2 drives both with the same fault, one after the other. I can't really see it can be anything else apart from the drive but then I know little about these things.
We have ran out of idea's so it's gone back to O/C and will be tested before it can be exchanged.
Anyone seen similar problems as I may get it back if they find no fault.
Mick........
A friend and I have just built the identical tower which is basically,
Athlon 3700, Asus A8N-E, ATI graphics etc. All the bits from Overclockers.
We both have Maxtor 80gb sata drives, well I've got 2 and mine all went well and still is.
The other however has a problem when trying to format the new drive. This is the second drive as the first one (brand new) booted Win 2000 Pro when I first booted up to format. We decided to format it anyway but it went very, very slowly and working it out would have taken over 4 hours to complete so we gave up.
The drive was exchanged no problem as it was a returned item but the new one does exactly the same thing but does'nt even get to the formatting progress bar or whatever it's called.
I have tried this drive in my machine and it behaves the same. I have also put an old ide drive in the other machine and it formats no problem.
So, is it possible to get 2 drives both with the same fault, one after the other. I can't really see it can be anything else apart from the drive but then I know little about these things.
We have ran out of idea's so it's gone back to O/C and will be tested before it can be exchanged.
Anyone seen similar problems as I may get it back if they find no fault.
Mick........