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SoggyDoritos

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Its an Acer Aspire One 722 Netbook and WD Scorpion Blue 320GB HDD and Im trying to install Windows 7 Home Premium. Whenever I boot in BIOS it recognizes my hard drive. THe problem is when I get to the setup screen and it asks me to choose a storage and my HDD is showing up unallocated. Is there a way to check if my HDD is dead or can it be formatted?
 
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Assuming that your hard drive works, you can use a command prompt with:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (the disk that you want to fix)
clean

If diskpart won't allow you to perform operations on the drive you may have to use the inactive command before clean.
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SoggyDoritos

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It wont let me. My HDD Just shows up as 0.0 GB with only one partition. The setup is asking to choose a storage device and wont let me install Windows 7 on this hard drive. The laptop crashed previously and now I'm trying to do a clean install and it wont let me use my HDD. I tried removing it and connecting it back. Still nothing.

Is there a way to format in cmd?

 
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Assuming that your hard drive works, you can use a command prompt with:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (the disk that you want to fix)
clean

If diskpart won't allow you to perform operations on the drive you may have to use the inactive command before clean.
 
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SoggyDoritos

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OK i had to boot from a USB drive and I can get to the cmd by going to the "repair your computer" section of the setup wizard.

how do i knwo which command lines to use?

Thanks again for the response.

 
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