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Post Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:03 pm   
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Ok guys a noob question here. I've taken out my 160gb Seagate hdd from my Xbox (which I sold) and have put it in my External hdd case and it only shows 7mb! WTF?

I know its to do with the Xbox formating but can't seem to fix it.

Help me please.

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*bump* WOW! Holley Mutha! I posted this like 1hr ago and its shot down the active topics list.


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:57 pm   
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What it shows 7Mb what are you trying to do? so i can make sense of what your trying to get at.
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Well I got a 160gb HDD and I'm trying to reformat it. I did this using Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 and it only shows up as 7mb (thats the max partition size)


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Post Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:27 am   
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try putting the harddrive as a slave in your computer and format it with Xp if you have it.
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Ok I thought of doing that. Will give it a go.


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Let me know if you have any problems
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When I gog into Device manager and say populate it says it's unreadable. Doesn't show in Localdrives either.


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was fatx still on the drive when you used Norton PartitionMagic 8.0?
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wait your harddrive could be one that need the jumper totaly off try that.
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Post Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:42 am   
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HDD has Jumper off to be in Slave mode.

I get this error in Partition Magic as it loads



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ok your going to have to get a dos based harddrive erasing program that goes on diskette or cd and wipe the drive. The programs are not hard to find.
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Yeh I'll need to use fdisk, right? Can this be done in recovery mode from Windows XP cd?


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xp doesnt have that ablity, trustme I tried, ill look for one for ya.
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here ya go try this one out http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm
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