Unable to format unallocated space of 386 GB on my Seagate 500 GB SATA HD

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Hi, My HD has two primary partitions and an extended partition(ALL NTFS) The two primary partititions are 30 GB win xp sp3 [C:] , 30 GB Win XP x64 SP2 [E:] (This partition is empty .I have not yet installed Win XP x64. ??? ) The extended partition I made is of 19.36 GB capacity.I made a logical partitition inside it allocating whole of the space ,ie 19.36 GB[D:].I used it to backup content from my old IDE hard disk.The remaining 386.41 GB of unallocated space I want to partitition as a single partitition, formatting as NTFS allocating whole of the space. The problem is that formatting stops still at around 44%.There is no message,nothing.It wont go beyond 44 %.Any Help,please?

Try another tool like partition magic or gparted

Backup All The Data from u r HDD, insert windows XP bootable CD, Delete all the partitions from the CD and try doing it again...

mannrak2003 said:
The remaining 386.41 GB of unallocated space I want to partitition as a single partitition, formatting as NTFS allocating whole of the space.

Try making smaller partitions.

Varad Dilip Choudhari said:
Backup All The Data from u r HDD, insert windows XP bootable CD, Delete all the partitions from the CD and try doing it again...

same backup all data and create fresh new ones according to your need

use and check other tools like partiion magic.
Though my experience is lil different, I made 200GB partition , not tested above 300GB but NTFS supports big sizes pretty easily.

gparted