Re: Format drive in XP
BOAC,
If it was a brand new drive, sounds like it could be a dud.... However, if partition magic formatted it OK then that is obviously not the case...
Maybe you coudl provide a little more info on the following to help us along?
Age of computer (motherboard etc)
Processor Speed (+ Intel or Athlon)
How the drive is configured (Primary or secondary channel; master or slave)
Other drives and how they are connected.
Cheers,
Shuttlebus