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jlr
 Post subject: Partion creation nightmare
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 5:34 
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Hey Everbody

I recently got a old 20 gig Westren HD. There were no partition on it, so I download Westren Digital Datalife Guard Tools, and made a partition. When I clicked on it via My Computer, windows wanted to format it, so I formatted it, full format to NTFS. Halfway thought the computer froze, and I had to do a hard reboot.

Now, the drive does not show up on My Computer, when using WD Tools, it shows again on My Computer, when I try to format via Windows, it says it can't be formatted.

Tried doing a low level format and also came up with a error. Any advice?

Thanks in advance
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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: Partion creation nightmare
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 5:45 
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Maybe defective hdd?
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mr_spokk
 Post subject: Re: Partion creation nightmare
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 5:50 
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You can also try partition magic.

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N.C.
 Post subject: Re: Partion creation nightmare
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 7:12 
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Hello,

Your drive have a lot of bad sectors, and will be frozen again, if the OS hits these...
I suggest to buy another disk.
This is only waste of time....

Regards,
Janos
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jlr
 Post subject: Re: Partion creation nightmare
PostPosted: August 25th, 2008, 3:17 
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Spildit wrote:
If you have something like HRT 2.1 or better you can fix those drives ....


Do you know where I can get HRT 2.1?

Thanks
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