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I have a Hard Drive that will take FOREVER to load, and it only formats to some types. (i.e. not NTFS and not ext4). I dont have much money, and if there is any way to fix this that would be great!

So far when it has loaded it has formated to Fat32.

I need atleast one Hard Drive to work (I have five, and three don't even work for sure), as my computer has no Hard Drive right now, and I need it for school soon.

My techy friend told me that I should rewrite the startup codes, but didnt explain it to me, except the fact that i need to write it in binary... ****

I had planed on installing windows onto it, but right now I could care less if it has Linux, as I just need my laptop to work.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

P.S. as this is my first post, I dont know where it should go, hopfully this is the right Forum.
 
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What software/OS are you using to format the drive? When installing an OS (whether it's Windows or Linux) you should be given the option to format the drive. If you have a way to connect the drive to another computer externally then try to remove the current partition (provided you have no data you need to keep), create a new partition and then format the drive.
 
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As of right now my laptop has no harddrive, but is running a temp boot of Linux on a USB (LinuxMint15)
I had tried to farmat the drive to NTFS using GParted, so I could install windows 7 Ultimate (see here)
But now as NTFS didn't work I tried installing Linux from my USB, to no avail, as it would not format to ext4.

I am given the option to format it, BUT IT DOESNT FORMAT TO THE PROPER TYPE, and gets 'stuck' in the format.
I have tried this MULTIPLE times.

EDIT:
The Hard Drive is 100GB.

Hitatchi
Model:HTS721010G9SA00
5V 1.1A DC
7200RPM
SATA
OCT-06
MLC: DA1534

That's all the info on the drive.

 
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What program would you sugest.

As far as noises go it just makes wuuuuuuuhrr noises and then the normal mechanical noises.

 
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If you have any disk diagnostics tools from Seagate or Western Digital I would try those first and if not then try running chkdsk /r (the /r locates bad sectors and recovers readable information). For example if the drive is c: then you would type chkdsk c: /r at a command prompt. The drive may sound fine but there is a possibility there are bad sectors on the drive.
 
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