SATA Hard drive problem...

[Conny Enström]

2011-10-08 18:08, Larry Shields skrev:
> *Here is my second problem, I just bought a 320 sata internal hd, now I
> look at the status of this drive by using ubuntu's
> System>Administration>Disk Utility program, it show that the drive is in
> good health, but when I try to assess it it tells me that it is busy...I
> called WD about the problem, the tech told me that the drive needs to be
> formatted but now this is a problem since I do not have any WINDOSE CD
> or software to format this new hard drive...I even tried it using the
> Disk Utility program, but again it says that it is busy and I can not
> access it...I've never had a problem like this before, and have no-idea
> as too what I can do so that I can use this new HD, if there is nothing
> that anyone can suggest, then I am going to take it back too Best
> Buy...I will not go out and buy WIN XP just to get it working...
>
> Thanks again for any help...
>
> Larry
> *
>
unmount the drive and use gparted to format the drive with ext3 
filesystem. Or NTFS or what ever you want.

In Linux you must unmount a drive to format it.