Need serious help!

[orangecat]

I have 100% no clue on what it is that I need to do here. I have a 640Gb drive form a laptop that is totally messed up. The drive still powers up and spins and even reads but the data on it is so corrupted somehow that the second i plug it in to format the drive can't find anything but partitions it will never be able to finish reading. if i plug in the drive and try to open my computer my entire PC locks up for a few minutes until a single partition shows up that is 100MB (system reserve) i am trying to format that or whatever but its just not happening also I want to remove everything form this drive. there are 3 partitions one is windows and the other 2 are system reserve and recovery. Nothing on this HDD is bootable or usable.

 

How am i to format this drive if all the computer does it wait for it to become readable?

 

EDIT: I may have found a solution... i downloaded WD Data LifeGaurd and I'm performing a write zeros to the physical HDD so hopefully if this works Windows will eb able to format the drive and make it usable but the smart test failed.

[Sundanc3]

maybe if you have an Windows installer like a disk or a USB drive you can boot onto that and them erase and reformat the disk from there. I don't entirely understand what you are trying to do. 

[orangecat]

maybe if you have an Windows installer like a disk or a USB drive you can boot onto that and them erase and reformat the disk from there. I don't entirely understand what you are trying to do. 

I want to 100% format the drive and remove all the partitions but the second I plug the drive into any PC it tries to read the data on the partitions and it gets stuck and makes the system lock up. I tried to use the disk management in windows but that doesn't even open because its waiting for the hdd to become ready.

[Sundanc3]

I want to 100% format the drive and remove all the partitions but the second I plug the drive into any PC it tries to read the data on the partitions and it gets stuck and makes the system lock up. I tried to use the disk management in windows but that doesn't even open because its waiting for the hdd to become ready.

Sounds like you have a paperweight on your hands  …no but in all seriousness I don't know what to do 

[orangecat]

Sounds like you have a paperweight on your hands  …no but in all seriousness I don't know what to do 

I think i figured it out hopefully in about 7 hours ill have the entire drive full of zeros.

[dylandylandylan]

I think i figured it out hopefully in about 7 hours ill have the entire drive full of zeros.

 

7 hours! wow, that seems like a long amount of time!

[orangecat]

7 hours! wow, that seems like a long amount of time!

Yea but it had to be done.