SATA Hard drive problem...

[Larry Shields]

2011/10/8 Conny Enström <uncurbed at swipnet.se>

> 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.
> *Thank you for the reply, I will see what happens...*


Thanks Larry

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