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[FW-Mike]

I partioned my friends hard drive properly but when i go to format it, it says

drive not ready
format terminated.

Anyone see this? How did you get around it? I tried scandisk c: but it couldn't.

[blue27]

What did you use to partition the drive?
Most times a third party partition software and manually re-formatting will work.

[NE-Andy]

If all else fails, zero fill/low level format prevails;
of course, then you'd need to repartition with FDisk etc...

[FW-Mike]

How do I do a zero fill/low level format? And should i jsut try using partition magic, too?

[blue27]

I have used partition magic in the past and it works great.

[FW-Mike]

Yea I would've done that except that last time i installed it there was some problem and i ended up having to repartition everything (I hadnt done anythign within the prog). I'll give that a try, however!

[blue27]

You could also check the site of your hard drive manufacturer. They often have utility software for this kind of thing.