Trouble: HDD reads formatting for more than 5 hours

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Tyco_RC

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I went through a step-by-step walk through guide on how to use newly bought 1TB hard disk and the last thing was to format it. I did that, and now it's five hours or more into the formatting while no status movement at all is occurring, I'm borderline of whether to force-cancel it (if I could, as I already tried manually pressing cancel without success) or something really stupid which could corrupt good space.

Hard Device: http://vvcap.net/db/6gTYMccym9mxNgzxYhvL.htp
Status: http://vvcap.net/db/EM26xcEwlP0FMZe-MYVX.htp

Thanks for your time in helping me solve this problem.
 
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By any chance did you select the full format option instead of quick format ? If so then usually it takes time to complete, say several hours.

But I think its stuck somehow. Power off the system and try it again. Its better to do this with a bootable media, if you have one.

 
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I don't think they show progress for formatting drives. I do not know how long my last one took as I left it overnight. I would give it a few more hours then give what lonewolf said.

The difference between a quick format and a full format is a quick format, 5ish mins, deletes the addressing table while the full format, up to several hours, writes 0's to the whole drive. A quick format should have be sufficient.
 
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Tyco_RC

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I tried all that, and it wasn't successful...

I noticed after doing it for the fourth or fifth time that the drive mysteriously went missing from my system monitoring, and therefore couldn't even be getting formatted...

So, what are some relatively easy ways I can check if the disk is even usable given the fact that only problems are arising from such a simple action and the drive still being under warranty?

Thanks for hearing me out, by the way.
 
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The two times I've been there I could, but what does that have to do with anything?
 
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Bios shows that the computer hardware can see the drive while my computer/ disk management shows that windows sees the drive. Just gives us an idea of where the problem lies.

 
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