SD.........
Initially I formatted the drive using Partition Magic, and have made a further attempt in WinXP by right clicking on the drive and clicking on 'Format'.
This process gets to about 98% complete but then announces that the job can not be completed.
On Vista, I've tried using the Disk Management utility but without success.
It's on my other screen now - it shows the drive as 76.70Gb RAW Healthy, (Active, Primary Partition). Right clicking and selecting 'Format' starts off the procedure but it never completes the task. 'Windows was unable to complete the format' is the sole result. This happens when either a quick format or the full job is selected.
All a bit of a puzzle, really. Does any of the above help at all?
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