Hey guys, i've recently aquired a Samsung Eco Spintpoint F2 sata 1.5tb hdd tonight.

Its been some time since i last formatted one of these, i was going to use Windows XP installer to format the drive. But upon opening it the drive appears to be in 3 partitions already :(

The drive is connected to the sata, although its only Sata 1.5gbps on my motherboard its showing up fine.

I've tried obtaining Samsungs Disk Managment tool to put onto a Floppy disc, but for the life of me i can get hold of it off of there website. I enter all of my details and press submit and it comes back with an error.

Can anyone give me any advice or help me obtain the DM_Creator.zip file?

I've got an F3 and it came with a 100mb partition marked as "system" and the rest as free space. Is your drive new? What size are the partitions?

Yes its brand new babs.

As you say C: (System) comes as a 100mb partition, the next partition is 1430gb, there is a 7 or 70gb partition i cant remember exactly. Obviously they look as though there all unformated.

Edited 23 February, 201016 yr by Browny_37

Can you not access it using disk management of an existing machine?

You should be able to delete the existing partitions, then create one new partition the entire size of the disc.

if you run FDisk, what do you get as the output?

Well, i managed to fathem this one out eventually. Shame i wasn't in the room when it happened.

I'd left a 8gb USB Key in the slot, this is where i presume i was getting my 7gb partition from.

I took it out of the computer so it wouldn't get knocked, pressed reset and went to try a windows boot disc. Which was totally useless for the need i had.

Anyway i took the floppy disc out and reset the computer, i went out of the room, to come back and find the Samsung Disc Monitor CD was in and ready to go.

It went straight through and booted up and i've partitioned the drives.

I've tried accessing the files on the USB Key now, to find they've become corrupt and required reformatting.

So all i can presume is that this has been causing the headaches and actually holding the computer back.

Many thanks for your ideas guys/gals

Edited 24 February, 201016 yr by Browny_37

Haha - result

btw, I' not entirely sure what that 100mb partition is all about!

Me neither babs, but I've made sure its not there now

The Samsung Software is pretty quick at creating several NTFS partitions, im not sure why i ever used FAT32 on my older Athlon Thunderbird cpu unit.

It does feel a little wierd having one partition at 993gb though.