I have a hard drive that I was using for testing different software and decided to reformat the drive. No matter what I try, I can delete the old partitions and crate a new one, but when I try to format the drive (60gb) all I get is the message formatting, and it will stay at that percent for hours. Hope someone has some ideas, I would still like to use this drive for software testing.
You should first scan-disk it and try to fix ALL errors on it.. You can also piggy back it from another computer to fix the problem that way.. It sounds like it has some BAD clusters on the hard drive.
Will scan-disk work on a unformatted drive? The drive was working prior to trying to reformatting the drive. You can hear the drive working, but the formatting % stays at 0 forever.
I agree, =dd. At least you've not lost any Data. IMHO "loose" drives are easily knackered . . . . e.g. knocked, or the pcb my have received an electrostatic "shock", etc. - - - - - - 60G sounds like it's a few years old . . .. shame, but no big loss, ++be grateful it's not taken out the PC interface... I did wonder if you've lost the MBR (is it?), which is recorded at the manufacturing stage.
