This isn't new as in "freshly brought". I had a friend who gave me an HGST 500GB, 7200RPM 2.5" inch factor hard drive. I'm not sure of its age, but he kept it in very good condition and there was nothing wrong at all with its appearance.
The drive's exact product number is HTS 725050A7E630.
I connected the disk up to my computer via a external hard disk enclosure (Bytecc aluminum enclosure, black, to be as precise as I can), and after Windows automatically installed its driver software, I was prompted by Disk Manager to initialize the disk. I chose master boot record, and after a few seconds it threw a "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)" error at me. I tried it again with GPT, same thing.
Then I connected it to my actual computer via SATA, and I rebooted my computer. The BIOS' loading screen comes up, but then the "Boot Devices" LED lit up on my motherboard and it took a glacial 4 minutes for the BIOS to even get past the loading screen where it displayed the ASUS logo. When I finally got back onto Windows and attempted to intiliaze it again via Disk Manager, still the same errors.
Then I tried to use a disk wiping software, Active@Killdisk. It recognized the disk and I set it to the "Kill" (absolute wipe) setting, but after I pressed 'Start', the wipe actually began. But all it gave me was a screen of "Sector (bunch of numbers) - (bunch of numbers) cannot be wiped - Access is denied".
So now I'm sitting here with a good 500GB 2.5" hard drive that I could put to some good use, but not even a full-out disk wipe let alone a format could touch it. Any tips? Thanks in advance.
The drive's exact product number is HTS 725050A7E630.
I connected the disk up to my computer via a external hard disk enclosure (Bytecc aluminum enclosure, black, to be as precise as I can), and after Windows automatically installed its driver software, I was prompted by Disk Manager to initialize the disk. I chose master boot record, and after a few seconds it threw a "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)" error at me. I tried it again with GPT, same thing.
Then I connected it to my actual computer via SATA, and I rebooted my computer. The BIOS' loading screen comes up, but then the "Boot Devices" LED lit up on my motherboard and it took a glacial 4 minutes for the BIOS to even get past the loading screen where it displayed the ASUS logo. When I finally got back onto Windows and attempted to intiliaze it again via Disk Manager, still the same errors.
Then I tried to use a disk wiping software, Active@Killdisk. It recognized the disk and I set it to the "Kill" (absolute wipe) setting, but after I pressed 'Start', the wipe actually began. But all it gave me was a screen of "Sector (bunch of numbers) - (bunch of numbers) cannot be wiped - Access is denied".
So now I'm sitting here with a good 500GB 2.5" hard drive that I could put to some good use, but not even a full-out disk wipe let alone a format could touch it. Any tips? Thanks in advance.
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