Windows 10 crashed whilst formatting a new HDD, now windows won't boot if that disk is plugged in

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Youmg Sandwiche

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Hi there! I'm really hoping you nice folks on this forum can help me with this issue!

I just finished building a PC for my friend and everything went fine. I installed windows 10 on an SSD and it booted into windows no problem. I noticed, however, that Windows was not detecting the additional 1TB HDD that was plugged in via SATA. So I open up the partition manager and it finds the disk! All that was left was to format it and partition it so Windows can use it. Unfortunately, at some point during this formatting process the disk management tool crashed and now windows won't boot when that 1TB hard drive is plugged in - it will boot fine with it unplugged, though.

Is there any way I can format this drive outside of the windows OS so that the computer will boot to windows and recognise the 1TB drive?

Thanks to any advice you can give!
 
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i assume its an iso from the manufacturer? if so try this tool never had it fail me making bootable usbs unlike some others

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
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Youmg Sandwiche

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Thanks for your response!

What would the "hirens" tool allow me to actually do?

I tried booting into windows and then connecting it. I refreshed the disk manager several times but it didn't acknowledge it was there.
 
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Youmg Sandwiche

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Thanks again for the response!

I checked out hirens tools and there are a LOT on the front page. Could you advise which one specifically I would be looking for?

I'll look into the manufacturer's software now
 
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in the hard drive section of hirens just look for one for your drive for example seagate drives would be seatools

though any of the partitioning tools would probably work

if the drive manufacturer has a tool that will be a simpler way of doing it as wont have to make choices of which tool to use then
 
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Youmg Sandwiche

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Ok so I took your advice and found the hard drive manufacturer's low-level formatting software. I put this on a dos bootable usb stick but now I'm experiencing another issue where I try and boot from my USB but it always takes me to this 'EFI Shell', not dos on the usb stick. The motherboard is an MSI Z97 Gaming 3.

Thanks again.
 
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Youmg Sandwiche

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Thanks for your replies and help mcnumpty23. Unfortunately I've realised that the drive is faulty (most likely the reason that windows crashed on it in the first place). I tried another HDD and it worked fine. We're gonna send it back for a replacement.

Thanks anyway!
 
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