If its not the proper forum for this problem please move it!!

Iam using HDD Low Level Format Tool and iam trying to format a HD. unfortunatelly iam getting the following errors..

Details are unavailable: Internal error.

and

6/13/2013 7:30:35 PM Locking device...
6/13/2013 7:30:35 PM Formatting...
6/13/2013 7:30:43 PM Format Error occurred at offset 0: 1117 - Device I/O error
6/13/2013 7:30:51 PM Format Error occurred at offset 65,536: 1117 - Device I/O error
6/13/2013 7:30:59 PM Format Error occurred at offset 131,072: 1117 - Device I/O error
6/13/2013 7:31:07 PM Format Error occurred at offset 196,608: 1117 - Device I/O error
6/13/2013 7:31:15 PM Format Error occurred at offset 262,144: 1117 - Device I/O error


ETC ETC... please advice

Thanks in advance

Device I/O error means the drive is inaccessible by any reason. In other words you cannot do anything with the tool you using at this moment

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Iam sure the device is connected.. any advice (tool) for solving this problem?

I'm not speaking for Doomer, but let's start at the beginning:

- What is the exact device (drive make & model) that you are trying to "low level format"?
- What problem does it have, which is why you are trying to do that?
- How is that device attached to the PC (USB, SATA, something else)?
- What other tests or fixes have you attempted first, and what were the results of each one?

Thanks for that information.


An actual ST... number would be even more helpful.


And you are happy to lose all your data on this drive - is that correct?


You mean that you didn't try to format the drive using Windows first?

Since this was your boot drive, and yet you are now trying to run a Windows program (the HDDLLF tool), you must be running Windows from another drive now. It will be helpful for other people to try to imagine what you are doing, if you explain the details of what you did after your problem (unable to boot) started e.g. did you move this drive to another PC?

You could attempt to collect the full SMART data (including raw attribute values) from the drive. I doubt that this will be successful - it is possible that your drive is just too sick for any software to successfully access it. However the SMART data might give more information.

Well i think i will try this way to find out what the problem is www[DOT]ultimatebootcd[DOT]com

Thanks for your support anyway!