Repairing a 250gb HDD in laptop

Reece · 05-05-12, 07:37 AM

My son has a laptop computer that had Vista and decided to put XP on it, whilst formatting it got to 100% then an error occurred, now it's stuffed!!
I assume that it may be a problem with XP being so old it didn't recognize the large partition, the drive has 2 partitions.
What I would like to do is remove both partitions then create a new one, make it active then format with an NTFS system.
Does anyone know of a program to use or offer advise on some other method to fix this?

05-05-12, 07:37 AM	#1
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,701 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Repairing a 250gb HDD in laptop My son has a laptop computer that had Vista and decided to put XP on it, whilst formatting it got to 100% then an error occurred, now it's stuffed!! I assume that it may be a problem with XP being so old it didn't recognize the large partition, the drive has 2 partitions. What I would like to do is remove both partitions then create a new one, make it active then format with an NTFS system. Does anyone know of a program to use or offer advise on some other method to fix this? __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*