satmanbasil
05-04-12, 15:11
Hi mates
Woke up today to find my sata 300gig hdd in the duo not working, cannot access anything from it, have played about with it and now removed it and put into a caddy connected to the pc.
It sees the drive ok saying it has 279.46gb unallocated so cutting my losses i decided to reformat it using windows proceedure however it reports back it cannot successfully format the drive.
first of all can i confirm what type of format ntfs or fat should i using so to make sure i did that right
however cud be simply a naff drive because its not responded to anything i done to it so far
I have also used a prog called mini tool partition wizzard this says the disk is 29.30gb unformatted and 250.16gb unallocated
Did surface test reports partition one with 3872 errors just writing zeros over to see if that helps
any advise on how to recover or to dump it now would be grateful
regards
Woke up today to find my sata 300gig hdd in the duo not working, cannot access anything from it, have played about with it and now removed it and put into a caddy connected to the pc.
It sees the drive ok saying it has 279.46gb unallocated so cutting my losses i decided to reformat it using windows proceedure however it reports back it cannot successfully format the drive.
first of all can i confirm what type of format ntfs or fat should i using so to make sure i did that right
however cud be simply a naff drive because its not responded to anything i done to it so far
I have also used a prog called mini tool partition wizzard this says the disk is 29.30gb unformatted and 250.16gb unallocated
Did surface test reports partition one with 3872 errors just writing zeros over to see if that helps
any advise on how to recover or to dump it now would be grateful
regards