I have a Western Digital Hard Disk 640gb that came with my laptop.
My laptop was sucking a lot so I decided that I just needed to re-install windows. I was backing up all of my Docs, Pics, and flics to an external drive.
My wife did not know what was going on, she grabbed the laptop, unplugged the external drive and took the computer.
When I got it back, windows was still running.
I was never able to successfully re-boot.
I bought a new hard drive and put it in my laptop and re-installed Windows 7.
So now I have this old (1 year lol) disk that I cna't format. I used PHotorec to recover my photos so I don't care about any of the data that still resides on this drive.
So I tried formatting the drive and it won't.
So I tried formatting it through Disk management and it will pretend to format. The next morning I come back and the format seems complete but when I try to access the disk it says "Drive W: must be formated before using it."
Finally I tried formatting it via Command Line with the same resutl.
Like I said I have written off the data but It pains me to simply throw away a 640 gb hard drive. I'd like to keep it around to keep my computer backed up so I don't get in trouble again.
Any suggestions?
My laptop was sucking a lot so I decided that I just needed to re-install windows. I was backing up all of my Docs, Pics, and flics to an external drive.
My wife did not know what was going on, she grabbed the laptop, unplugged the external drive and took the computer.
When I got it back, windows was still running.
I was never able to successfully re-boot.
I bought a new hard drive and put it in my laptop and re-installed Windows 7.
So now I have this old (1 year lol) disk that I cna't format. I used PHotorec to recover my photos so I don't care about any of the data that still resides on this drive.
So I tried formatting the drive and it won't.
So I tried formatting it through Disk management and it will pretend to format. The next morning I come back and the format seems complete but when I try to access the disk it says "Drive W: must be formated before using it."
Finally I tried formatting it via Command Line with the same resutl.
Like I said I have written off the data but It pains me to simply throw away a 640 gb hard drive. I'd like to keep it around to keep my computer backed up so I don't get in trouble again.
Any suggestions?