I cannot initialize my HDD

[Mehzaa]

Whenever I try to initialize my 1TB Seagate HDD 64MB 7200RPM, I set it to GPT Partition Style and I get this. What can I do? If I set it on MBR I still get the same error.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Probably a bad drive, try it in anouther system. Try also uses crystal disk info.

[Mehzaa]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Probably a bad drive, try it in anouther system. Try also uses crystal disk info.

How can I try it in another system? Or try to make it that it uses crystal disk info?

[Enderman]

RMA?

[Yvette222]

Probably this drive has bad sectors, you can download disk test tools like CrystalDiskInfo to make a test.

 

[Mehzaa]

5 minutes ago, Yvette222 said:

Probably this drive has bad sectors, you can download disk test tools like CrystalDiskInfo to make a test.

 

So I downloaded Crystaldiskinfo,clicked on Disk 1 and it shows me this.

[Mehzaa]

Also,I'm not used to this HDD/SSD checking stuff,I'm not really sure what I can really do..

[kirashi]

34 minutes ago, Mehzaa said:

How can I try it in another system? Or try to make it that it uses crystal disk info?

Take the drive out of your computer and connect it to another computer, just for testing purposes.

16 minutes ago, Mehzaa said:

So I downloaded Crystaldiskinfo,clicked on Disk 1 and it shows me this.

Since CrystalDisk Info is not polling any SMART data... or any data at all, this points to either drive failure, or much less likely, SATA cable or port failure on the motherboard. You can try swapping the SATA cable out for a known good working one, or moving the drive to another port on the motherboard, but I'd say the drive is deaded.

[Yvette222]

In my opinion, this drive is dying. 

If you have important data saved in this drive, try minitool, recuva or easeus... to scan your drive. But most probably these third party data recovery software can't finds your data. if so, you need to send it to professional data recovery service.

 

[Mehzaa]

1 minute ago, Yvette222 said:

In my opinion, this drive is dying. 

If you have important data saved in this drive, try minitool, recuva or easeus... to scan your drive. But most probably these third party data recovery software can't finds your data. if so, you need to send it to professional data recovery service.

 

Huh....A fresh HDD dying...I have no important data on it,so what I can mostly do then?

[Mehzaa]

10 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Take the drive out of your computer and connect it to another computer, just for testing purposes.

Since CrystalDisk Info is not polling any SMART data... or any data at all, this points to either drive failure, or much less likely, SATA cable or port failure on the motherboard. You can try swapping the SATA cable out for a known good working one, or moving the drive to another port on the motherboard, but I'd say the drive is deaded.

i only had SATA cables from my old pc (which it does not obviously work,since i scrapped some stuff from it.) and it worked on that one.. And I do not own a PC or anything else that I can try to see if it doesn't work there as well.

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, Mehzaa said:

Huh....A fresh HDD dying...I have no important data on it,so what I can mostly do then?

If it's brand new, you can RMA it under warranty, or possibly even exchange it where you bought it directly. It's rare, but you definitely can get a brand new drive that's dead on arrival.

[seagate_surfer]

Hello Mehzaa!

I/O errors are related to connection problems, such as a bad cable, defective slot or bad drive, something is keeping the connection pins to transfer data to your motherboard correctly. Just make sure you are using a known working cable/slot. Some programs may not work as you expected, try a clean boot also to determine whether a program or driver is having a conflict with the drive: How to Clean Boot.

 

[Razor Blade]

9 hours ago, Mehzaa said:

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Whenever I try to initialize my 1TB Seagate HDD 64MB 7200RPM, I set it to GPT Partition Style and I get this. What can I do? If I set it on MBR I still get the same error.

 

 

You could try the following. (WARNING: THIS METHOD WILL RESULT IN THE DATA ON THE DRIVE TO BE LOST!!)

 

• Open start menu
• type command prompt you should see this pop up...

 

 

 

• Next RIGHT click on that option and select "Run as Administrator" 

 

• Now that the command prompt pops up, type "diskpart" (FYI anytime I ask you to type something only type what is inside the quotations) and press enter.
• Next type "list disk" and press enter you should see something resembling this...

 

• You should see your 1TB disk on the list. If not, check your SATA cable or switch ports on the motherboard. Or your drive may be bad. Assuming you see the disk proceed...
• Type "select disk #" But replace the # with the number of the disk that is your 1TB seagate. In my example if I wanted to select the 200GB disk I would type "select disk 3". Once you type it in and press enter you should be prompted "Disk # is now the selected disk"
• Now make double SURE you selected the correct disk!!!
• Next type "clean"
• You should be prompted "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk."
• Now go back to partition manager and attempt to initialize the disk again.

[seagate_surfer]

I wouldn't try to recover the drive yet with Disk part because it removes the partition and volume information from the selected device resulting in loss of data, recover your files first and then try to initialize again after having completed the "DiskPart" method.

[Razor Blade]

5 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

I wouldn't try to recover the drive yet with Disk part because it removes the partition and volume information from the selected device resulting in loss of data, recover your files first and then try to initialize again after having completed the "DiskPart" method.

Yup you're right, I added a warning to my post.

[seagate_surfer]

These type of problems are covered by your warranty, you can access our warranty validation site and check to see if you are still covered and then contact us to validate your warranty and give a replacement, just be advised that the recovery of your data is not included, so you will need to recover your files using other methods, free or paid tools or using the Seagate Recovery Services by an extra charge that Seagate does not cover.