Format issues
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Heres my issue: I was having problems moving, saving, or deleting items to and from my Hitachi SimpleDrive USB 1TB hard drive. So i decided to reformat it to solve the problem. This is where the problems come up.
It now wont let me format it (errors include: "Media is write protected", "Windows cannot complete the format" format takes a little while to start then stops after a minute or so)
I have tried to format in disc manager and also some other tools but none seem to work.
Please help me!!!!!! I will give any information needed to assist.
P.S. I have tried partitioning it with no success
It now wont let me format it (errors include: "Media is write protected", "Windows cannot complete the format" format takes a little while to start then stops after a minute or so)
I have tried to format in disc manager and also some other tools but none seem to work.
Please help me!!!!!! I will give any information needed to assist.
P.S. I have tried partitioning it with no success
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It certainly seems like you've got some fort of issue with the disk. Is it internal? Try using a utility that can report the SMART error counters (such as "DiskCheckup").
If it's an external drive, I think I'd remove it from it's case, mount it internally, and check the SMART counters on it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#ATA_S.M.A.R.T._...
If it's an external drive, I think I'd remove it from it's case, mount it internally, and check the SMART counters on it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#ATA_S.M.A.R.T._...
Well I'm not sure whether you could fix it or not, but if you can connect it internally then you'll be able to look at the SMART counters and get a little better idea what the problem is. If you've got reallocated sectors then you're seeing a problem with the drive itself, but if you've got protocol errors then it's more likely to be a (less serious) connection problem.
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