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Can't Format Hitachi Microdrive inside my tomtom gps

Asked by jrtsan in Handhelds and PDAs, Computer Hard Drives, Peripherals

Tags: format microdrive Tomtom, hard drive, microdrive, gps

I bought a tomtom 910 on ebay which is not working.  It 'boots' to tomtom but then has a red x.  anyway, I know it has a hitachi microdrive which I would like to re-format and then tomtom home says it will recognize it.  Then I can buy the maps and it should work.

I'm trying to determine if this drive can be saved.  Initially when you plug in the usb it errors saying:
One of the USB Devices attached to this computer has a malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it.

yes, i tried the correct reset button for 5, 15, 30 and 60 seconds a thousand times with no joy.

  But if I go to device manager and disable then enable the unknown usb device and then reboot, it comes up as e drive every time.  I have tried the following programs on that drive all of which have failed:

seatools: knows it's a tomtom, wrong size (2000gigs when it's just 20 gigs)
ontrack data recovery: never recovers even from raw recovery any data
windows disc manager: right click e drive and format in various ways (want fat 16 or 32)
partition magic 8 to format it: does not recognize it unlike all above. maybe old version of pm
wipeout:  a low level format program but it fails and won't even let me try

I know where I can buy another but before I do I want to ask the experts here why it can see the drive but not access data or format it?  I heard my last resort is to buy some 40 pin to 50 pin adapter or something like that and access it from my comptuter, not usb.  I don't have one or know exactly what I need to try this.  It seems so darn close - even the tomtom knows it's a tomtom and sound works on booting and icons show up, just does not work.  

specifically, here's what the hd specs say:
Hitatchi Model # HTC426020G5CE00
It is 1.8" HD 50pin ATA interface microdrive

same as used in laptops it says.  Yes, I've tried connecting with tomtomhome from 3 computers.

Thanks in advance
James
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