Can't format HDD

[jer0me100]

Hi guys, I just put together my new rig and everything is going fairly well so far. The only problem that I am having now is that I am unable to format my main storage hard drive. I had it completely wiped in disk management, then I made a new simple partition that was the entire size of the hard drive. But when it starts to format the drive after creating the partition, windows tells me the partition cant be completed. I have no idea what to do now and thought maybe one you guys might have had a similar issue. Thanks

[kb5zue]

Hook it up as a slave in another machine and run some diagnostics on it such as Scandisk or Chkdsk.  You didn't say what brand and model it was but using that information, go to the makers website and check to see if they don't have some hard-drive tools that you can download and use.  Most reputable drive makers (Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung), have tools these days that consumers like you and I can download and use to check their drives.

 

[jer0me100]

3 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Hook it up as a slave in another machine and run some diagnostics on it such as Scandisk or Chkdsk.  You didn't say what brand and model it was but using that information, go to the makers website and check to see if they don't have some hard-drive tools that you can download and use.  Most reputable drive makers (Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung), have tools these days that consumers like you and I can download and use to check their drives.

 

oops, forgot to mention that its a western digital. I'll check out their website and see what tools are available. 

[desertcomputer]

I would RMA or return to where you brought it and tell them the drive is DOA (dead on arrival) , recently i brought some Seagate Ironwolfs and one of drives won't format on my machine(OS). I went and ask for a on spot replacement and seem to fault drive. 

[BestPCBuilder2017]

3 hours ago, jer0me100 said:

Hi guys, I just put together my new rig and everything is going fairly well so far. The only problem that I am having now is that I am unable to format my main storage hard drive. I had it completely wiped in disk management, then I made a new simple partition that was the entire size of the hard drive. But when it starts to format the drive after creating the partition, windows tells me the partition cant be completed. I have no idea what to do now and thought maybe one you guys might have had a similar issue. Thanks

Picture/image of the error? 

[Azrukal]

As a last resort I have had sucess using diskpart in CMD before

 

1. open CMD

2. type "diskpart"

3. type "list disk"

4. select the disk you are having issues with "select disk X"

5. type "clean"

6. type "create part pri"

7. type "select part 1"

8. type "format fs = ntfs quick"

 

after you should have a valid partition on the disk assuming you didnt get any errors (you may need to go into disk management and give it a drive letter but probably not)