Hi all,
Just been round a mates house to fix a problem with his USB external hard drive and I'm stumped. I've bought the drive back here, it is not just an enclosure so I cannot open it up and plug the drive straight into my computer so I have to run it through the USB interface, ruling out any pure DOS applications.
Basically it is acting very funny, keeps coming up with "Delayed write failure: K:\$Mtf" - I know this is bad, but I'm hoping to completely wipe the drive clean and start afresh. I've tried Administration tools -> Computer Management in WinXP Pro but when I try to delete the partitions on the drive (if they appear in the list at all - sometimes they do, sometimes they dont) it just comes up with an error box telling me to consult the System Event Log (which shows it as "Unspecified error (80004005)." - Source - LDM).
Firstly I'm trying to work out if this is a USB issue or a disk issue/partition? I want to completely wipe the partitions so I dont care about any data on the drive, how can I start afresh?
Cheers,
James
Just been round a mates house to fix a problem with his USB external hard drive and I'm stumped. I've bought the drive back here, it is not just an enclosure so I cannot open it up and plug the drive straight into my computer so I have to run it through the USB interface, ruling out any pure DOS applications.
Basically it is acting very funny, keeps coming up with "Delayed write failure: K:\$Mtf" - I know this is bad, but I'm hoping to completely wipe the drive clean and start afresh. I've tried Administration tools -> Computer Management in WinXP Pro but when I try to delete the partitions on the drive (if they appear in the list at all - sometimes they do, sometimes they dont) it just comes up with an error box telling me to consult the System Event Log (which shows it as "Unspecified error (80004005)." - Source - LDM).
Firstly I'm trying to work out if this is a USB issue or a disk issue/partition? I want to completely wipe the partitions so I dont care about any data on the drive, how can I start afresh?
Cheers,
James