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SATA drive unformatable?

 
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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006
PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: SATA drive unformatable? Reply with quote
I have a SATA drive that refuses to be formated.

This drive crashed and trying to fix it didn't do anything, so I plugged it into another computer and tried formatting it. It takes about 20 to 30 minutes and then windows informs me that the drive could not be formatted?

Screwed up harddrive?

I wish i could at least recapture some data on it.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:16 pm    Post subject: Re: SATA drive unformatable? Reply with quote
Juregen wrote:
I have a SATA drive that refuses to be formated.

This drive crashed and trying to fix it didn't do anything, so I plugged it into another computer and tried formatting it. It takes about 20 to 30 minutes and then windows informs me that the drive could not be formatted?

Screwed up harddrive?

I wish i could at least recapture some data on it.


Sounds trashed BUT

when you tried to re-format it, did you erase the partition and start again or just right click and format?

I assumed you are using XP....

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ben-ja-mas



Joined: 20 Jan 2008
PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Guess it could be trashed but have a look at this:

http://phorums.com.au/archive/index.php/t-165451.html

Also this:

http://www.google.co.kr/search?complete=1&hl=ko&lr=&newwindow=1&q=SATA+drive&as_q=%22cannot+format%22&btnG=%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC%C2%A0%EB%82%B4%C2%A0%EA%B2%80%EC%83%89
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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006
PostPosted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:12 pm    Post subject: Re: SATA drive unformatable? Reply with quote
ttompatz wrote:

Sounds trashed BUT

when you tried to re-format it, did you erase the partition and start again or just right click and format?

I assumed you are using XP....

.

Vista

Well it was more of problem of booting. Trying to get it fixed by repairing the files took so long I decided to start from scratch. The installation (with a format) was interrupted by saying that it couldn't continue installing.

Then I plugged it into another computer, and it showed up but unformatted, i tried a quick format, no go, I tried a normal format, no go

For some reason my hardware is giving me problems these days.
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