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Started by BuffaloNoGo, December 16, 2009, 01:48:05 AM

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BuffaloNoGo

December 16, 2009, 01:48:05 AM
   

Hello all.

 

Bought this hdd yesterday and finaly today i wanted to format it to NTFS. I used windows format, when format was finished program said: this device was unable to format.. somethingf like that. Now blue light have been on 2-3 hours already, what this hdd is doing now? formatting automaticly to fat32, installing those default programs to hdd? ...

BuffaloNoGo

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December 16, 2009, 03:57:32 AM
   

Ok. It seems that this HDD have extra memory or something to backup everything up.

 

Everythging is now ok. Hdd is fat32 again and now what i do, if i want to format this to NTFS? Windows format is unstable for this hdd.

PCPiranha

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December 17, 2009, 02:58:50 AM

There shouldn't be any problem using the windows formatter to format the drive.. What OS are you using?

BuffaloNoGo

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December 18, 2009, 06:24:43 AM
   

Win Xp and windows 7.

 

I was able to format with partitionmagic. now this hdd makes wierd noise when it writes data, I sent this hdd back to where i bought it, and they send new one.. too bad that I've already stored all the important stuffs there :/

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