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August 3rd, 2009 18:00

Inspirion 531: Newly-installed Seagate Baraccuda 1.5TB Hard Drive will not complete formatting

When trying to format the large hard drive, the formatting freezes at 73%, which means that it does not seem to be able to break the 1TB barrier.

Is there a way to complete formatting of the 1.5TB?

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August 4th, 2009 07:00

Formatting how?  With what partition type?

 

August 4th, 2009 19:00

 I have been following the Seagate instructions for adding a second drive at http://support.seagate.com/rightnow/Flash/Install_Guide/SATA/Seagate_SATAII_IG.html

 
I chose the default values for partition types, with which I'm not familiar.  I did not choose multiple partitions.
It gets stuck at formating when it reaches 73%.
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