HDD Seagate 500GB faulty after erasing

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Hello everybody,

I used DBAN to wipde the data on it.

It must have wpied some data on the HDD that are necessary for disc to work properly.

1. I can not boot from 'Sea tools for DOS' (a bootable CD) because it hangs - I see black screen while trying to boot from a CD with 'sea tools for dos'.
2. I can not use 'paragon manager' from hiren's CD because the same happens. It hangs. I can only see a black screen.
3. I used g-parted (a bootable CD with g-parted only) successfully to create partitions (one primary and one logical) but now there is an additional unallocated partition in g-parted. I can see two 1MiB unallocated areas. - One before primary part. and one before extended partition. Very Weird.

4. The partition resizer v. 1.3.4 says:

Error 7: Overlapping partitions found. Offending partitions: 1 and 2.

5. Super Fdisk 1.0 says similar things.

What happened to my disc and what to do?

Thank you in advance.

What happened to the HDD? What went wrong?
 
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RealBeast
Use what you like but if it doesn't work try something else. DBAN did not cause any physical damage to the drive. There is nothing on an uninitialized drive necessary for it to function. Of course if the drive was faulty before running DBAN then it could appear that DBAN was at fault.
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If you run an elevated command prompt (right click run as admin), and use these diskpart commands, do you see the drive:

diskpart
list disk

if so I would then use

select disk n (the problem disk)
clean

Then go into disk management and initialize and format the disk.
 
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Why do you suggest using diskpart? (anyway I don't use Windows 7) I have used G-Parted and the above mentioned software. These aps don't play second fiddle to diskpart.

The problem that I described indicates that D-ban must have damaged the HDD in some way, haven't it?
 
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Use what you like but if it doesn't work try something else. DBAN did not cause any physical damage to the drive. There is nothing on an uninitialized drive necessary for it to function. Of course if the drive was faulty before running DBAN then it could appear that DBAN was at fault.
 
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Thanks for you answer, but as you can see from my first post there must be sth wrong with the disc if the above happen. It is not normal what happens to the disc Sir.
 
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