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Maybe you have come across this or maybe you havent but if you even put in a hard drive and go into the Disk Manager in Windows XP and the system tells you the drive is a GPT Protective Partition and you try everything to format the drive with no luck here is how you get around this.

There are 2 ways to do this one is quick the other a lot longer.

The quickest method isto aquire a copy of XBOX Hard Drive Perparer V1.3. We were able to find the application here.

Choose the offending drive and for Zeroing select Only 1st 4096 sectors of partition and hit prepare zeroing out the first 4096 sectors. Now reboot and then you will be able to create partitions and format the drive for use.

The second method would be to aquire your manufacturers low level format utility. This can take a very long time depending on the size of the hard drive and is an alternative if you have nothing better to do with your time.

IBM(Hitachi)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm

Fujitsu
http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1

Samsung
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm
FAQ: Low level format

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Hope this helps and if you have any questions of comments please feel free to post it.

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