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Error formatting external hard drive

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I haven't seen this issue before and it's not MOSS related :)

I bought a new 160GB 2.5'' external hard drive.... sure why not! Anyhow, when I tried to format the drive I received the following error message "All NTFS boot sectors are unwriteable. Cannot Continue. " Screen shots below:

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Screen shot of my reaction:

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Not really :) but that's how I felt when I searched the web and couldn't find anything to help resolve the issue. In the end I simply deleted the partition and formatted the drive without any problems or errors. For some reason the initial partition must have been corrupted somehow and caused the format to fail. Hopefully, this doesn't happen to you but if it does you know what to do!