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basquiat
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_ 		5. December 2006 @ 08:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i bout=ght one of these refurbished on ebay, when i plug it in as slave the bios recognizes it fine, windows recognizes it fine but it is not accesible because it is not formated, so when i try to format it, the drive powers itself off (can hear it spin down) and freezes the pc, i have tried this in 2 different computers same thing, and also tried putting it in a pc by itself and booting my windows cd to let it format it but same thing happens (shuts down). i also downloaded from western digitals website a wd diagnostics tool, which tells me it failed the s.m.a.r.t. status, but whenever i trie to run the actual diagnotic test same thing occurs, the drive powers down and freezes the computer. now the strange thing, i can format it as fat32 and it works just fine...what the hell is up with that?
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ddp
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_ 		5. December 2006 @ 09:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
see if can do a low level format.
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basquiat
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_ 		5. December 2006 @ 09:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what exactly is a "low level" format?

edit: ok did some checking and gonna try the low level format tool from here http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/...962/index.html,

crossing my fingers.
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