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HDD won't format into NTFS

Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
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As above, it'll do FAT32... but not NTFS, any idea why? Its a 25gb Fujitsu and its pissing me off. Got a 15gb Western Digital that is the same. Are some drives not NTFS-able? Becuae i've done older drives in NTFS, like old 2gb ones... so why not these newish ones?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    How are you trying to format it? Is it a slave drive and you're trying to format it using the Windows tools, or are you installing an OS from scratch and trying to format it that way?
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    's a slave, and I am telling windows to format the thing in NTFS.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Try opening the command prompt and typing 'diskpart' and working through it from there, maybe that could offer a different solution?

    I've used it a few times, pretty straight forward.

    Out of interest, whats the error message it's giving you when you try and format it to NTFS?
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    "Unable to complete format" I think.
    I'll try command, it can be good.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Never know, could give you a bit more info at the prompt. Let us know if it's still giving jip.
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    It seemed to work after I deleted everything with DOS... file system the lot. Fresh hard disk. :D

    Woo for that. Now, to do the 15gb one.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :thumb:

    When Windows fails, command tools are the way!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NTFS is more fussy about errors.
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