Hard drive failed?

[Docretier]

My hard drive will not format, I've tried both disk manager and command prompt to format. I deleted the partitions on it, so there are no partitions on it for me to run dskchk. Any suggestions?

[limegorilla]

Have you tried the "Clean all" command in Diskpart?

[userzero]

cmd

diskpart

list disk

select disk

clean

 

If that doesn't work for you to then initialise within disk management it's toast.

[ScratchCat]

1 hour ago, Docretier said:

My hard drive will not format, I've tried both disk manager and command prompt to format. I deleted the partitions on it, so there are no partitions on it for me to run dskchk. Any suggestions?

If you have deleted all partitions you will have to create partitions in order to format a partition. You can create partitions in Disk Management by right-click and select new simple volume.

[Docretier]

27 minutes ago, ScratchCat said:

If you have deleted all partitions you will have to create partitions in order to format a partition. You can create partitions in Disk Management by right-click and select new simple volume.

Yes, that’s is the problem. Creating a volume is impossible as it needs to format the partition during its creation. 

[Docretier]

1 hour ago, userzero said:

cmd

diskpart

list disk

select disk

clean

 

If that doesn't work for you to then initialise within disk management it's toast.

Did that already. I used clean and the hard drive disappeared in windows. It reappeared after I switched it to a new port and then initialized it but I still can’t create the partition or have it format. It has been Initialized. 

[userzero]

Run crystaldisk and see if it's got a caution/warning on it.

[Docretier]

3 minutes ago, userzero said:

Run crystaldisk and see if it's got a caution/warning on it.

I feel dumb for not thinking of that, I already have it and have used it many times just for checking my drives. I will have to check it when I get home.

[ScratchCat]

2 hours ago, Docretier said:

Yes, that’s is the problem. Creating a volume is impossible as it needs to format the partition during its creation. 

Maybe try creating a new partition table and formatting the drive using Linux using gparted or a similar tool. Being unable to create partitions could point to a broken partition table. Guide: https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-create-partition-table

One of my hard drives did a similar thing where it would have to be initialised each time it was connected and at points was not able to be initialised. I never managed to get it to work and as it was a drive with a custom connector (USB rather than SATA) I assume that somehow the firmware was damaged.