Completely format harddrive (question)

[Stefan Schroder]

Hi,

I have had my Seagate 500Gb hard drive for about 5 years now, and recently it is getting corrupted very often (twice in 3 months).

I have used programs EaseUS to see the data that is still on the drive and what i want to recover and what i don't.

 

The second time I went to look to see what i could recover, I noticed that the original files (pre first corruption) were still there, after a complete format. Since i had restored some of those original files, they were corrupted again in the and now conflict with the originals.

Which resulted in having duplicates of each file. (making it difficult to recover)

 

(if I'm terrible at explaining things, im sorry)

example:

original file: K:\Files\Text.txt

hard drive corrupts, i use EaseUs to see the files.

recover K:\Files\Text.txt

format K:\

copy Text.txt into K:\Files\Text.txt

hard drive corrupts again, now with EaseUs I see K:\Files\Text.txt and K:\Files\Text_000.txt

 

This wouldnt be such a problem but it happens to every single file that was restored, meaning games become 2x the size and sometimes just broken.

 

(The actual question)

How do i format the hard drive so that i cant see any files when i scan with a program such as EaseUs.

 

any information on why my hard drive would corrupt so often would also be appreciated.

 

Thank you for your help!

 

[DarthSmartt]

 

1 minute ago, L.Lawliet said:

1.U probably had a bad sector in your hard drive or bad drive health test it with crystal disk info

2.U could run Dban/Secure erase to fill your hard drive with Zeroes so everything will be overwritten

Dont you hate it when you are typing and looking for programs that will help people and someone just cuts you off and posts exactly what you were going to say? lol

[mariushm]

Go to Western Digital's downloads page : https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en

 

And download Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows, a 605 KB zip file.

 

Launch the software , it will work with any drive, not just WD drives. Right click on drive, select Run Diagnostics, then select ERASE , and FULL ERASE

[Stefan Schroder]

Thank you mariushm it worked very well! :D,

 

4 hours ago, L.Lawliet said:

1.U probably had a bad sector in your hard drive or bad drive health test it with crystal disk info

2.U could run Dban/Secure erase to fill your hard drive with Zeroes so everything will be overwritten

 i unfortunately didn't get to try your method because i didn't want to have to close everything, but thank you for your quick reply