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| Thread ID: 121489 | 2011-10-28 02:42:00 | I've stuffed a hard drive! | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1240437 | 2011-10-28 02:42:00 | WD IDE 200g. Somehow, playing around with WIN7 and XP I have stuffed a HDD. In BIOS it is recognised as a GDC something. Acronis sees it as a 200g but with what looks like machine code in the description. Although it is seen, Acronis and WIN7 don't want to know it so I cannot format it or do anything with it. To all intents and purposes it would seem that it should be thrown away but, up until I messed it up it was working well. It hasn't been dropped, just a software calamity. Is there any program that I can use to restore it to a formatted disk so that it will be useful? Do you think a local IT Tech might have the tools to fix it? |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1240438 | 2011-10-28 03:08:00 | Any sort of bootable partition software should be able to wipe it clean, and create a new partition etc. Gparted comes to mind, from here (gparted.sourceforge.net) or personally I would use Paragon PartitionManager (www.paragon-software.com), not to sure if the free version allows the creation of a bootable CD or not ?? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1240439 | 2011-10-28 06:31:00 | Have you checked whether you can see it in Disk Management (Type that into the Start Menu search box (W7)). | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1240440 | 2011-10-28 08:02:00 | Seems it's not ID'ing itself properly, so I'd suspect the firmware is corrupted. A firmware update might have the potential to help, but the software for doing the job will probably refuse and say it's not the appropriate drive, given it's borked ID string. |
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