format did not complete succecfully....argh!

I\'m trying to fromat my external 250gb HD but when I get to 100% it gives me the error listed in the title.  I checked it with some tests from Western Digital, and there are no surface errors.  I\'ve been trying to format it with Disc Managment utility, because I don\'t want to buy partition magic.  It formatted once, when I first got it yesterday. but then out of no where it went back to a raw format.  Anyone have an idea for a fix?

OS=XP Home
HDD is an 250gb Western Digital Cavier in a 3.5" external USB 2.0 enclosure, all bought from Newegg

[videoholic]

WHy don\'t you make a small partition and try to format that.  See what happens.  

v

I don\'t know what I\'m talking about.

Good idea, and I tried that.  Still failed.  However, I did take out a HD that was working from inside my PC, and put the new one in there, and it worked.  When I put the working HD in the external enclosure it gives me the familiar raw format, corupt, etc... errors.  So I\'m thinking my enlcosure sucks balls.

yeah, you probably need to RMA the enclosure and get another one... sucks though.

I mean you could make it the slave drive in your computer and format it there, then put it in your enclosure.  But it\'s sucky to have to do something like that

son of a bitch, I took my 200gb HD that had been working in my pc and put it in the enclosure, and it worked fine.  I watched a little of a movie on it and all was peachy keen.  Then after closing my case and finishing up I go to check on it and the only folder on it that isn\'t "corrupted" is the fist folder on it, all the others are "corrupted".  I say "corrupted" witht the quotes because if I hook it up internally it\'s just fine.

Then I tried another enclosure and it doesn\'t even come up as a usb device, just jack shit.  God damn this is pissing me off.  However my firewire enclosure and HD is just humming along like a champ.  Only diff is that the firewire hd is fat32, will my USB2.0 is NFTS

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if you\'ve added it to your pc as extra storage on a xp machine.
Try disk management under computer management in admin tools to format it.

tried, I\'m thinking as strange as it sounds it\'s an incompatibility issue.  The HD is Eide and the anclosure is IDE.  I\'ve checked all HD\'s and they all work and are installed internally now (took out my DVD ripper, and put the HD in there for a temp situation)  USB ports are all working correctly.

What bogles me is the fact that it\'ll recognize the HD for a little while, then it will allow me to access it but says that every folder is corrupted, but they\'re just fine once connected to the pc internally)