Well then, your hard drive may have been damaged.

I would try to delete the partition from a 3rd party disk manager program
such as that marketed by Acronis. I would do it via the boot CD that I
create after installing the program. That would be the best chance of
clearing out what is there and starting new. It could be that the partition
"type" flag has been set for some non-standard partition type that Windows
does not recognize. If this is the case, you will not likely be able to
repair the problem from within Windows and using the Windows utility.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"spangler" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> How do i delete the partition ? Because there is no partition. It's one
> volume and i can't delete it not through Disk Management....
>
> Thanks
>
>
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> spangler[/color]

Yes, but the O/P has said nothing about passwords or file encryption.

Plus, this happened during formatting when a power outage occurred, all
indications that the drive has been either thoroughly corrupted or has
become defective.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"kword88" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> i am pretty sure the drive is just locked. i had the same problem with
> my external drive, until i disabled the password protection. its a
> built-in security feature,to help protect your personal data. you have
> to install the software to disable it.
>
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> kword88[/color]

If a CD came with your MyBook it may have a User's guide on it which could
help you. If not there may be updated Vista drivers and user's guide for
the MyBook at the WDC.com website

"spangler" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Hello guys... thanks for all the support and i dont think there's a
> built in password but anyway thanks for your suggestion... it seems i
> found what went wrong... well anyway here's my conclusion from what i've
> experienced..
>
> The HDD is not defected (so far yes, its not)... but the problem lies
> within the OS in this case... the vista itself... i've tried it on 4
> four computer. 2 vista (home premiums and ultimate) and windows xp sp3.
>
> Symptoms
> - when i operate the HDD on vista, i can't format beyond around
> 300-400gb... if i format above that , it will failed. (using the disk
> management in-built)
> - When i copy a loads of file at once regardless the size, it will
> stuck and freeze. I could still use my computer its just that i can't
> delete the process, i can't use explorer when that thing happened.
>
> So i was curious and tested it on xp... yep it work great, no error at
> all. So the conclusion that i got is :
> - Vista is not supported by the HDD or the other way around that vista
> doesn't support this.
>
> if this is an error from my Vista please tell me how to fix it.. Thanks
> before and as a note... the file type that i am using is NTFS... gonna
> try what happen if i am using FAT32 .. though its the pain in the ass
> that i've got to reformat it on xp
>
>
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> spangler[/color]