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HDD not working propperly.

E11101101
By E11101101
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(English is not my main language so some terms might be off)

 

I bought two used 1TB WD Caviar Green HDDs online. One of them works just fine. The other one appeared in the File Explorer without a usage bar so I thought a format would solve it. Formatting got stuck at 100% for around 15-20 minutes and eventually failed and the drive didn't appear in File Explorer anymore. It's still in Windows Drive Management and in Device Management so I guess no Hardware problem is happening. Device management shows the drive as Unknown and Not Initialized but also fails to initialize it regardless if I choose MBR or GPT for it. Third party partition managers dont report the drive at all either so no MBR reconstruction is possible inside Windows (withing my knowledge). I got Gparted and got to boot into it but can't trigger MBR reconstruction there cause I don't know the commands for it without a drive letter. Some help would be great. Thanks beforehand.

 

(It's the WD10EARS)

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