From: george@yourservice.com   
      
   "Holly"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns98608C50F78ABewrfdgrstnet@140.99.99.130...   
   > "What's in a Name?"  wrote in   
   > news:xn0esl21w15qvz001@news.akr.sbcglobal.net:   
   >   
   >> Holly aka c@t69.net in alt.os.windows.xp,after much thought,came up   
   >> with this jewel:   
   >>   
   >>> I have a slave drive I want to reformat, what is the best way to do   
   >>> this ?  I remember fdisk from windows 95 days, do people still do   
   >>> this ?   
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   >>   
   >> Holly   
   >>   
   >> Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management   
   >>   
   >> max   
   >   
   > Tried it and it would not work - Left it on all night and it got stuck at   
   > 59%.   
   > Every service I try to run on it gets hung up. Defrag, disc check and now   
   > reformat all get stuck.   
   > It appears I'll have to try to use the manufacturers disc utility to do   
   > it,   
   > and if that does not work it will need replacing.   
      
   You need to go to the supprt page of the web site for your harddrive and   
   download an updated disk diagnostic utility (some manufacturers can run the   
   diagnostic over the internet).  Run the utility to see if the disk is bad.   
   Sounds like a bad disk to me.   
      
   George   
      
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