HDD suddenly has lots of small partitions

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christopherl123

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Hello,
I have a Seagate Freeagent Go 500GB with a Seagate Barracuda 5400.6 which became corrupt a few days ago because I unknowingly put a magnet on it. After recovering the information, I tried to fix the hard drive by doing a low-level format but a few minutes after the HDD was formatted, the HDD had 10 partitions that I had never put on it. They all consist of 2MB to 1.21GB, except for the last partition, which is unallocated. Also, all of the little partitions are RAW.
Has my hard drive failed or am I doing something wrong?

Chris

EDIT: There are now more partitions (up to 14), and some of them are 0MB.
 
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Hello,
Since you started to format it again then probably you don't have any important data on it (if you had you should have used a recovery program like GetDataBack before because any format, especially low-level format will damage the remaining data making it hard to recover in case you want it back).
I personally had a similar problem with another hard disk and used this program:
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel.php
I ran a surface test and selected "Reinitialize disk surface" as the type of test. It took quite some time, especially on bigger hard drives (500 GB will take around a maximum of 48 hours if I remember well) but in the end after the test was completed I was able to go disk management in Windows and format the...
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lostsoul49

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Hello,
Since you started to format it again then probably you don't have any important data on it (if you had you should have used a recovery program like GetDataBack before because any format, especially low-level format will damage the remaining data making it hard to recover in case you want it back).
I personally had a similar problem with another hard disk and used this program:
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel.php
I ran a surface test and selected "Reinitialize disk surface" as the type of test. It took quite some time, especially on bigger hard drives (500 GB will take around a maximum of 48 hours if I remember well) but in the end after the test was completed I was able to go disk management in Windows and format the disk into NTFS just as usual.
If the test fails or gives errors then most likely the disk has serious problems and you should try to contact warranty.

Carl
 
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