Need help with HDD problem

[AirStrike]

Hey guys. Quick issue I'm having, I'm setting up a media drive for my cousin the exact same as mine bar the brand of HDD. The issue I'm having is that I cannot format it to NTFS (has to be this or won't operate), I have tried a quick format and a full one with not luck.

[Ozzie]

Is the hard drive new?

Whats it changing to? RAW?

[Tom_1569]

What are you using to format it? and whats its reason for failing?

Could always boot it up with Ultimate Boot disc, and do a scandisk, and see if its got any bad sectors. If its brand new, it could be a dud or failed, you will find most hard drives to fail with in the first two weeks, or after 5 years.

What brand is it our of curiosity? Im guessing Seagate

[EDIT] So it will format as other's just not NTFS? [/EDIT]

[Rufus®]

try downloading and using swiss knife Swiss File Knife - Utilities & Operating Systems - File Management - Downloads - CNET Australia, or run a live distro and format it from that, much faster than windows.

[AirStrike]

It's a brand new HDD, it's a Hitachi. It will format to exFAT or reverts to RAW. In exFAT format it will operate as an external HDD but not work as a media drive. The error message when trying NTFS is simply the drive did not format correctly and it reverts to RAW format.

[88GreenVN]

Plug it in as the master drive and run the xp install. (unplug other drives first.)

[MudBlood]

shouldn't be able to see it if you havent,, but you have set the partition on it???

add it as a master drive insert your win cd and start the install process,, let it format the drive then power off the machine and you're set

[AirStrike]

Problem was the freaking jumper. mine was shipped with the one jumper pin this with two. Thanks for the suggestions guys.