franconeus

Upgraded from 40gb SATA to 500gb SATA hard drive (slave)...Windows Xp can see the new drive but cannot format it for some reason..is this an OS issue or a motherboard (SY-CK8 Dragon Plus) limitation issue...thank you...Frank from Montreal .

Cromewell

Does it give you an error message?

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hackapelite

???
You can't have SATA drives in master-slave configurations, can you?
If i'm wrong, tell me. But I've NEVER seen any of this master-slave stuff with SATA drives.

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No you can't but when I see it I just assume they hooked it up to a different channel and are using a different HD for their OS

I had an Asus motherboard that labelled channels 1 and 3 as master and 2 and 4 as slave though.

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franconeus

U R right about the master slave comment...but y am i not able to format the 500gb drive ?

franconeus

the only error msg. i receive is "cannot format this drive"...

Cromewell

Ok. I assume you are using disk management to do it? Do you have the option to initialize the drive? It may be grouped with the option to create a partition, which you have to do before you can format it.

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