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So, uh, I think my new harddrive might be dead

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irishdude   09-06-2008 at 01:54:58 AM

Built my new computer and it booted right up. Tried to install Windows XP and it said it needed to create a partition. When I selected my C: drive it said it needed to be reformatted. I clicked for the long reformat and the whole thing would have taken at least an hour or two. So, instead of being patient, I was in the mood to be an idiot and turned off my computer without really thinking about it.

So the BIOS still detects the HD there and identifies it (I have another harddrive in there but I'm not concerned about that at the moment) but when I go back to install XP, I do the "Quick" reformat or whatever. That takes about 5 - 10 seconds, but afterwards it said that it failed because either my disk is damaged or not plugged in properly.

So judging on what I've said, does it sound like I need to get a new hard drive? Or should I just go through with the long reformat or what? By the way, this HD is brand new, so nothing should be on it.

And I'm quite a noob at this, so anything is possible. Maybe I'm even misreading the error message lol. I didn't really do anything in the BIOS yet besides scan through it, I was too anxious to get the OS booted up. Anyway, any help is appreciated.

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xanxaz   09-06-2008 at 02:32:15 AM
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Grab a Hiren Boot CD and format it with one of the utilities... if you have another pc you could connect the hdd and do a proper format... worked for me... i would sugest to do it with the Hiren Boot CD...Super Fdisk or Paragon... or just type format X: in the command line...

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br3nd064   09-08-2008 at 04:11:20 AM
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xanxaz wrote :

Grab a Hiren Boot CD and format it with one of the utilities... if you have another pc you could connect the hdd and do a proper format... worked for me... i would sugest to do it with the Hiren Boot CD...Super Fdisk or Paragon... or just type format X: in the command line...


+1...another one would be Darik's Boot and Nuke.

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