Time for physical format ???
Hallo,
today i startet a physical format. My buffalo drive station HD-HC500U2 500 GB war formattet with FAT32. I need NTFS. Since starttime there left 700 minutes. Is that normal?
what shall i do?
Thank you for your answer.
Sincerly Kurt What is it with these Drivestations they just don't want to be formatted. I tried to format during installation and was told that everything was successful but in the drive management utility it still showed up as FAT32. I tried right clicking on the drive and selecting format but there was an error during the proccess so that failed. I tried to format using Run CONVERT F:/FS:NTFS making sure that F is the letter for my drive, I thought I was getting somewhere but the process seems to hang a the point where it says determining disk space required for system conversion. It hadn't completed last night so I left it to run all night only to find it was still at the same point when I woke up this morning. I have a Drivestation HD-CE1.0TU2 with XP and this drive needs to be formatted. ARRRRGH!
today i startet a physical format. My buffalo drive station HD-HC500U2 500 GB war formattet with FAT32. I need NTFS. Since starttime there left 700 minutes. Is that normal?
what shall i do?
Thank you for your answer.
Sincerly Kurt What is it with these Drivestations they just don't want to be formatted. I tried to format during installation and was told that everything was successful but in the drive management utility it still showed up as FAT32. I tried right clicking on the drive and selecting format but there was an error during the proccess so that failed. I tried to format using Run CONVERT F:/FS:NTFS making sure that F is the letter for my drive, I thought I was getting somewhere but the process seems to hang a the point where it says determining disk space required for system conversion. It hadn't completed last night so I left it to run all night only to find it was still at the same point when I woke up this morning. I have a Drivestation HD-CE1.0TU2 with XP and this drive needs to be formatted. ARRRRGH!
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Answers & Comments
Did you fit the drive into the Buffalo drive case? If so, take it out and put it in your computer tower/case and format it from there. Then put it back into your Buffalo case.
Go to the Buffalo sight and see if your Drivestation needs a firmware update - there may have been bugs in the one you purchased.