Partitioning my hard drive
in Software ·
Do you think I could use Partition Magic to fix an HDD that didn't get fully formatted when the partitions were being split?
My brother picked up a laptop, and the guys who set it up split the drive into two partitions and installed Windows, but they never actually finished formatting the second one—they just left it unformatted.
Now, whenever I try to go in and hit "format disc," it just fails. An error message pops up saying it can't be done... though I don't quite remember the exact wording since I haven't really tried again in a few months. Luckily, it's only about 80 GB, so it's more than enough space for whatever he needs.
My brother picked up a laptop, and the guys who set it up split the drive into two partitions and installed Windows, but they never actually finished formatting the second one—they just left it unformatted.
Now, whenever I try to go in and hit "format disc," it just fails. An error message pops up saying it can't be done... though I don't quite remember the exact wording since I haven't really tried again in a few months. Luckily, it's only about 80 GB, so it's more than enough space for whatever he needs.


