3rd SATA hard drive won't format correctly


  1. Posts : 18
    Windows 7 Ultimate RTM X64
       #1

    3rd SATA hard drive won't format correctly


    m/b: ASUS P5Q-EM CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 3000 MHz (9 x 333) O/S: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate RAM: 8GB Hard Drive: 2 x SATA 250GB - Hitachi Deskstar T7K250; Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250310 DVDROM: ASUS DRW-2014S1 ATA Device x 1; ASUS DRW-24B1LT ATA Device x 1 I have two SATA hard drives as can be seen above, and today bought a third drive - a Samsung 1TB SATA drive. I attached the drive and booted the machine. BIOS can see the drive. Windows Disk Management can see the drive. But... When I format the drive, it always comes up as a RAW partition and Windows cannot see it. Can someone help me to solve this problem? How can I successfully format this drive with, say, 4 partitions that are NTFS, not RAW?
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  2. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
       #2

    Tell us the exact steps you are using to format the new HDD.

    Or, you can follow this guide,

    Create and format a hard disk partition

    When formatting use NTFS and 'Quick Format'.


    Or this Win7 tutorial How to Create a New Partition or Volume in Windows 7.

    As mentioned below by theog.
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  3. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #3

    Try a full clean & full format in command prompt.

    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
    Partition or Volume - Delete
    Partition or Volume - Create New

    1) Elevated Command Prompt (for command prompt)
    2) Boot DVD, & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
    3) Command Prompt at Startup (for command prompt)

    Type in command line
    DISKPART
    LIST DISK OR List Volume (If you have partitions)
    SELECT DISK #
    CLEAN ALL
    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
    SELECT PARTITION 1
    FORMAT=NTFS
    ASSIGN
    EXIT
    EXIT

    3rd SATA hard drive won't format correctly-list-diskina.png

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...tallation.html
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