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Old-Hippie
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FORMAT 2TB 5900 RPM ST320005NA41AS-RK

Is there a problem with xp formating the entire drive  all 2 tb of it?

 

 (The prior seatools will not format it either.   The current seatools has the system.string problem so I am using the previous version).

 

I used xp spc 3 to format this drive.  I still had some items on it which were on other drives.  It did not format the entire drive.  I let it run all night.   When I go up, the computer was logged off and the information was still on the drive.

 

The last time I checked it was about 70% complete.   The drive is hooked onto a sata pci card.

 

Thank You

 

 

Yottabyte
fzabkar
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Registered: ‎01-27-2009
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Re: FORMAT 2TB 5900 RPM ST320005NA41AS-RK

SeaTools is a pass-or-fail diagnostic. I suspect that your drive may be hanging up on bad sectors. Therefore I would use a more comprehensive SMART tool to look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for SMART info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.