Can't format hard drive.

almillar

I have 4 hdd's in the PC

What brand and wattage is your power supply? It might be struggling.
And what is your graphics card - if it's half modern, you just install AMD Catalyst or NVidea drivers which should give you the resolution you want and much better performance. I had to do this on a not-that-old Radeon HD5770.

poppellerant

Do you know the make and model of your graphic adapter? If not, then do the below:
1) Click on the Start Menu and type device manager, then highlight Device Manager with Control Panel underneath in smaller text and press Enter or left click.

2) If Display adapters isn't already expanded, click on the arrow pointing right next to Display adapters to expand it. Now double click on Microsoft display adapter or whatever else is listed there.

3) You will now have another window open with several tabs along the top. Click on the Details tab. From the Property drop down list, choose Hardware IDs.

4) Now right click the top value, choose Copy then paste that information into a post here.

Robisere

Rev wrote: »

Thanks but that wasn't the original message. The original was something to do with a dll file. Then it was a disc error. Then the above. Then several more.

I wasn't backing anything up as in the article and I couldn't get Windows to start to even attaboy the listed solution. A lot of MS 'solutions' don't take many variables into account.

And every time I tried to repair it i got stuck in a loop.

From your initial Post:
"Failed to format the selected partition. Error 0x80070057"


That's the Error I googled. No mention of another by number.

Rev

almillar wrote: »

What brand and wattage is your power supply? It might be struggling.
And what is your graphics card - if it's half modern, you just install AMD Catalyst or NVidea drivers which should give you the resolution you want and much better performance. I had to do this on a not-that-old Radeon HD5770.

It's a corsair 450w.


It's a crappy nvidea gfx the 7300 or something. I don't game or run anything demanding graphics wise. I can't even remember now why I got it and didn't use the motherboards on board graphics.

I did download the nvidea drivers but they kept saying they couldn't detect the hardware so I tried an older version of the nvidea drivers and found one that works.

Thank you!

Rev

poppellerant wrote: »

Do you know the make and model of your graphic adapter? If not, then do the below:
1) Click on the Start Menu and type device manager, then highlight Device Manager with Control Panel underneath in smaller text and press Enter or left click.

2) If Display adapters isn't already expanded, click on the arrow pointing right next to Display adapters to expand it. Now double click on Microsoft display adapter or whatever else is listed there.

3) You will now have another window open with several tabs along the top. Click on the Details tab. From the Property drop down list, choose Hardware IDs.

4) Now right click the top value, choose Copy then paste that information into a post here.

It wasn't listed at all. For some reason it simply said generic Microsoft display adaptor (sorry can't remember the exact word).


But I've sorted it now. Thank you!

Rev

Robisere wrote: »

From your initial Post:
"Failed to format the selected partition. Error 0x80070057"


That's the Error I googled. No mention of another by number.

Yes. I know and I appreciate your help. I was simply explaining why I couldn't use that solution.