HI guys,
I've done a bunch of research and haven't found the right answer.
So I own a 500gb HP Simplesave portable hard drive, and the other day I was writing a file to it and it disconnected by accident, so the hard drive files went corrupt. I've already recovered my files off of it by using linux to copy them off, right now its in unalocatted format. I want to format it so it basically writes 0's to the whole thing, and quickly.
i Tried using HDD Regenerator, but that scans it sector by sector and then repairs each sector. i have around 9 million sectors on the drive, and it estimates it will take like 60 days to complete. But HDD regenerator fixes the sectors so that you can recover files. I don't need the files I just want the drive back blank like I bought it. How do I do this without formatting it sector by sector?
I tried windows 7 quick format but it says I'm unable to complete it when I try, and when I try to format it normally I get stuck around 14%.
what do i do now?
I've done a bunch of research and haven't found the right answer.
So I own a 500gb HP Simplesave portable hard drive, and the other day I was writing a file to it and it disconnected by accident, so the hard drive files went corrupt. I've already recovered my files off of it by using linux to copy them off, right now its in unalocatted format. I want to format it so it basically writes 0's to the whole thing, and quickly.
i Tried using HDD Regenerator, but that scans it sector by sector and then repairs each sector. i have around 9 million sectors on the drive, and it estimates it will take like 60 days to complete. But HDD regenerator fixes the sectors so that you can recover files. I don't need the files I just want the drive back blank like I bought it. How do I do this without formatting it sector by sector?
I tried windows 7 quick format but it says I'm unable to complete it when I try, and when I try to format it normally I get stuck around 14%.
what do i do now?
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