Issues with an HDD drive

[uriv1999]

Hi, i've found a HDD laying arround my house and i've put it into my rig, but I can't format the drive, windows give me an error and i don't know what to do. (I can't open the disk itself aswell)

[uriv1999]

1 minute ago, mcraftax said:

Well what the error?

Windows couldn't complete the format. That's all

[uriv1999]

1 minute ago, mcraftax said:

Did it say why?

So disk management can identify the drive but you get the error when formatting it.

Yes, it apear in the disk management window like all the other drives that i have, but i can´t format it. In the folder it's said that is not cipherable with bitlocker, i don't know if that's a big issue or not

[DnFx91]

12 minutes ago, uriv1999 said:

Hi, i've found a HDD laying arround my house and i've put it into my rig, but I can't format the drive, windows give me an error and i don't know what to do. (I can't open the disk itself aswell)

can linux see it/format it ?

 

if not, its a goner

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, Julian2000nl said:

Have you tried live booting Linux and using gparted? That also gives error details if any occur.

haha i beat u to it by like 5 seconds

[uriv1999]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

can linux see it/format it ?

 

if not, its a goner

I don't have linux intalled, with virtualbox can i see it?

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, uriv1999 said:

I don't have linux intalled, with virtualbox can i see it?

no as @Julian2000nl and myself were about to say, you can burn partedmagic onto a usb and boot it to check your drives out

[uriv1999]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

no as @Julian2000nl and myself were about to say, you can burn partedmagic onto a usb and boot it to check your drives out

Ok, i'll it!

[DnFx91]

3 minutes ago, uriv1999 said:

Ok, i'll it!

5 minute google on how to use GParted and ur good to go

 

3 minutes ago, Julian2000nl said:

Live boot a USB flash drive, linux can run fully of a USB Drive.

I would use Linux Mint for ease of use.

yeah partedmagic can be a pain to get hold of, i forgot it wasn't free lol, oops.

 

Agreed tho, mint is free and includes gparted

[uriv1999]

 

 

4 hours ago, Julian2000nl said:

Here's the link

https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=226 (64 bit)

https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=225 (32 bit)

 

Just burn it to a usb drive and boot from it. Then open the terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and type "sudo gparted", hit enter to execute. It's really easy to use but may need some getting used to.

 

The Linux kernel probably  has all your drivers build in so you can use Firefox(just type "firefox" in the terminal) to look up tutorials if you don't get it.

 

4 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

5 minute google on how to use GParted and ur good to go

 

yeah partedmagic can be a pain to get hold of, i forgot it wasn't free lol, oops.

 

Agreed tho, mint is free and includes gparted

Thank you, the disk is now running

[DnFx91]

59 minutes ago, uriv1999 said:

 

 

 

Thank you, the disk is now running

cool, just for future reference, it didnt occur to me until now that you could have done it from windows very easily, i forgot about diskpart

 

run cmd

type diskpart and hit enter

lis dis - this lists the disks

sel dis x - replace x with the drive u wanna work with

type clean and hit enter.

finally type "cre par pri" and hit enter, this makes big primary partition in raw format, that you can then format to whatever you want from the partition editor.

 

[mealto]

12 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

cool, just for future reference, it didnt occur to me until now that you could have done it from windows very easily, i forgot about diskpart

 

run cmd

type diskpart and hit enter

lis dis - this lists the disks

sel dis x - replace x with the drive u wanna work with

type clean and hit enter.

finally type "cre par pri" and hit enter, this makes big primary partition in raw format, that you can then format to whatever you want from the partition editor.

 

I was updating retropie on a raspberry pi and SD card got so corrupted Windows could not format the card. Will diskpart work on an SD card to "clear" whatever is on there so I can do a full format?

[DnFx91]

4 hours ago, mealto said:

I was updating retropie on a raspberry pi and SD card got so corrupted Windows could not format the card. Will diskpart work on an SD card to "clear" whatever is on there so I can do a full format?

yeah the clean command in diskpart will work on any drive, it just wipes the partition table leaving the drive completely unallocated. then all you have to do is create a new partition and format it

[mealto]

12 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah the clean command in diskpart will work on any drive, it just wipes the partition table leaving the drive completely unallocated. then all you have to do is create a new partition and format it

I followed the diskpart instructions above and got through everything ok except the last line. It says that command is not compatible with removable media. But the SD card is still showing all the previous data and Windows still cannot format it. 

 

Sounds like a dead SD card?