New hard drive, crashed while formatting, windows won't start

Danx30

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Dec 26, 2014
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Okay, this is a bit of an odd situation. I got a 2tb HD and added it to my system to use for storage and backup. I partitioned it and started the format. After 20 minutes or so my computer appeared to be frozen. I had to do a hard reboot and windows would not start. I disconnect the new HD and windows starts just fine. So with it in I get stuck on the windows 7 loading screen, even safe mode won't boot. So how do I access this drive to try the format again?

I know the format stuck because of a bad spot on the disk, I did have it partitioned into 2 equal size partitions and one of them formatted in just a couple seconds, then the other one got stuck.

I hope I explained this right.
 
Solution
Try running gparted before booting windows. You can usually use it on a cd or flash drive. Recreate the partitions and format them in gparted.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

You can also run Seatools for DOS on the drive to check it for problems prior to attempting to boot the OS.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/