Unable to format my 1TB hard after low level formating

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Amin Hosseiny

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Hi,
I formatted my 1TB seagate freeagent goflex hardware by "Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool".
But now windows shows me this error when I want to format it"windows is unable to complete the fortmat".
I googled my problem and downloaded a free software "HPUSBDisk" to format my drive but it says "device media is write protected".
So I tried to edit regedit.exe =>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
and I did what I could but still I cannot format my ex-hard and I get the same error.
What should I do?
 
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Boogieman_WD

Boogieman_WD

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Hey Amin Hosseiny. You could also try removing the write protection through CMD with DISKPART.
Run CMD as administrator then write the following commands and press "enter" after each one.
1. diskpart
2. list disk
3. select disk x (where x is the number of your drive)
4. attributes disk clear readonly
5. close Command Prompt when the process completes.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Amin Hosseiny

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Thanks for your help.
I disconnected the drive for one week and then I tried to format it , I don't know why but it was formated.
I have another problem with it:
At first few days it was OK but now I cannot copy anything to it or I can't delete anything because when I refresh, the changes disappear.
I tried what you said, but I still have the same problem.
 
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