Help fixing USB hdd please

[ant666_2]

Hi, I'm attempting to get a USB Hard drive working again, however disk management in Windows won't let me do anything, it says something about fatal hardware error. Partition magic tells me the drive is write protected.

I managed to do a surface scan in Ubuntu (as it just crashes in Windows) and it flagged 4 bad blocks but I have no Linux knowledge and was wondering how I could either identify where the bad blocks are and create a partition with them in then use diskpart to deactivate said partition. Or I read somewhere about writing zeroes to the drive.

 

I can't connect the drive directly as the USB port is on the drive it's self and not a separate pcb that connects to it

 

Thank you

Edited April 24, 2018 by ant666_2
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[NelizMastr]

So there's no important data on it anymore? Once you zero the drive, everything is destroyed beyond recovery. 

 

I'd honestly just throw it away since it's unreliable for storing anything important in the future. Once the bad sectors start creeping in, many will follow shortly.

[ant666_2]

Just now, NelizMastr said:

So there's no important data on it anymore? Once you zero the drive, everything is destroyed beyond recovery. 

 

I'd honestly just throw it away since it's unreliable for storing anything important in the future. Once the bad sectors start creeping in, many will follow shortly.

No there's no important data I'm fixing for friend amd its just to play avi files on his TV 

[NelizMastr]

Well there's no way to separate the bad sectors, so the best thing you can try is just wiping the drive clean of any existing partitions and repartitioning it. If it still won't work, throw it away.

[seagate_surfer]

One thing you might be able to do is grab our free diagnostic software SeaTools, and run a "Fix All" test, which can sometimes correct bad sectors. Walkthrough guide in our Knowledge Base if you need it:

SeaTools for DOS tutorial

There's also a Windows version guide:

How to use SeaTools for Windows