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 kidaihuan
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 Formatting an external HD in Windows... crashed. How to make my HD work again? 
#78990 - 07/11/08 02:38 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't need to get the files back (duh), but I need to get the disk working.
No partitions are detected, however I can detect the external HD as a device.
Any way to force format it? I've got Vista as well as Linux Ubuntu that I can use.
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 andyistic
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 Re: Formatting an external HD in Windows... crashed. How to make my HD work again? [Re: kidaihuan]
#79038 - 07/11/08 08:10 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Go into Linux then do this command on that drive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/??? bs=512 count=100000
... where ??? is the device-code of your external drive.
Then you can go to cfdisk and create new partitions, or create them with Vista.
Your choice.
If you can't find your external drive-code, then you'll have to remove it from the external case,
then physically attach that drive as an internal drive (either parallel or serial ATA or SCSI).
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coda
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Re: Formatting an external HD in Windows... crashed. How to make my HD work again? [Re: andyistic]
#79054 - 07/11/08 08:43 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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so i'm assuming you can't find the drive in a DOS box? Because if you can, all you need to do is type format [drive letter] /q for a quick format.
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kidaihuan
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Re: Formatting an external HD in Windows... crashed. How to make my HD work again? [Re: coda]
#81728 - 07/13/08 04:16 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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fixed it
ran a pirated version of spinrite on it and it fixed some bad sectors.
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