Dead Hard Drive?

[sprunk]

Hi, I have bought a usb hard drive enclosure and was looking to use an old hard drive I had lying around for back ups.

Though when i connect it up the drive was recognized in windows though I couldn't write any files to it. I deleted all the partions on the drive in disk management and got it back to a raw disk though every time I try to reformat it I get an error message.Is there anything else to try or is it ready for the bin?

Thanks.

 

[kb5zue]

5 minutes ago, sprunk said:

Hi, I have bought a usb hard drive enclosure and was looking to use an old hard drive I had lying around for back ups.

Though when i connect it up the drive was recognized in windows though I couldn't write any files to it. I deleted all the partions on the drive in disk management and got it back to a raw disk though every time I try to reformat it I get an error message.Is there anything else to try or is it ready for the bin?

Thanks.

 

If you could give us a little more information it would really help.  What is the make and model of the drive?  How old is the drive?  What is the operating system you want to use with the drive?  Does the drive work if installed in the computer?  Did you recreate a new partition after deleting the original partition?

[sprunk]

12 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

If you could give us a little more information it would really help.  What is the make and model of the drive?  How old is the drive?  What is the operating system you want to use with the drive?  Does the drive work if installed in the computer?  Did you recreate a new partition after deleting the original partition?

It's a western digital 1tb green drive. About 4 years old. Using windows 10. The drive has the same problem installed in the system. I created a new Partition after deleting the old one though it won't let me format the partition. I think the problem might be when trying to create a partition cause it seamed to hang for a bit.

[kb5zue]

The drive is toast.  At the very minimum, you should be able to format the drive after recreating the new partition.

[STRESSMASTER]

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12 hours ago, kb5zue said:

If you could give us a little more information it would really help.  What is the make and model of the drive?  How old is the drive?  What is the operating system you want to use with the drive?  Does the drive work if installed in the computer?  Did you recreate a new partition after deleting the original partition?

 

12 hours ago, sprunk said:

Hi, I have bought a usb hard drive enclosure and was looking to use an old hard drive I had lying around for back ups.

Though when i connect it up the drive was recognized in windows though I couldn't write any files to it. I deleted all the partions on the drive in disk management and got it back to a raw disk though every time I try to reformat it I get an error message.Is there anything else to try or is it ready for the bin?

Thanks.

 

 

Sounds like the partition didn't apply right. sometimes a HDD in a enclosure will not allow a partition with a normal windows tool. for future reference there is a dos/command line tool that you can even unlock partitions or lock them so they can't be deleted. it is called fdisk if I remember.

[Dionysos]

Try to directly connect the drive to the SATA port or eSATA port of your motherboard, and see if anything becomes normal. I have found some cheap USB2/3 enclosures to have defected or incompliant controller designs.

[kb5zue]

7 hours ago, STRESSMASTER said:

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Sounds like the partition didn't apply right. sometimes a HDD in a enclosure will not allow a partition with a normal windows tool. for future reference there is a dos/command line tool that you can even unlock partitions or lock them so they can't be deleted. it is called fdisk if I remember.

fdisk stands (for “fixed disk or format disk“) is an most commonly used command-line based disk manipulation utility for a Linux/Unix systems. With the help of fdisk command you can view, create, resize, delete, change, copy and move partitions on a hard drive using its own user friendly text based menu driven interface.

 

https://www.tecmint.com/fdisk-commands-to-manage-linux-disk-partitions/

 

[STRESSMASTER]

18 hours ago, kb5zue said:

fdisk stands (for “fixed disk or format disk“) is an most commonly used command-line based disk manipulation utility for a Linux/Unix systems. With the help of fdisk command you can view, create, resize, delete, change, copy and move partitions on a hard drive using its own user friendly text based menu driven interface.

 

https://www.tecmint.com/fdisk-commands-to-manage-linux-disk-partitions/

 

correct but it was in it's first life a DOS com file. It was used in windows 3.1 & 3.11 95 upto windows XP. MS integrated MOST but not all it's functions into the windows GUI when VISTA came out