Hard Disk recognized but Win 7 can't format it.
My Western Digital 1500 HLFS VelociRaptor is recognized by Win 7 but I can't access the disk. I'm told it has to be formatted, but Win 7 is "unable" to format. The Disk Drive has a letter assigned to it. I checked properties and found that 0 bytes are used and 0 bytes are free.
Any help?
Any help?
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Web_tracker raises an excellent point about destroying the data and I should have mentioned that. While there are methods to recover data from re-formatted drives, if your intent is to read what is on the drive then re-formatting is NOT a good step. I assumed that you were trying to start with a blank drive.
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I have been away from the computer.
I am trying to start with a blank drive.
Also the drive came out of my computer. I was going to use it as a firewire back-up drive and then ran into this.
I'll do what I've been advised to do now [diagnostics and try formating] and let you know what happens. And thanks, really, for the help
I am trying to start with a blank drive.
Also the drive came out of my computer. I was going to use it as a firewire back-up drive and then ran into this.
I'll do what I've been advised to do now [diagnostics and try formating] and let you know what happens. And thanks, really, for the help
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What worked beautifully - ran WD diagnostics Lifeguard and it passed. Then I zeroed out the disk -- and it passed. Then I couldn't see the hard drive - it had no letter. But I remembered that CompProbSolved said if it sees a letter it thinks the drive is formatted. [thinking backward, I realized the drive needed to be formatted to be seen]. I started Disk Manager which recognized the drive -- but required that it be initialized in order to be used. I initialized the drive. Then formatted it. And now it's working PERFECTLY.
Thanks all!
Thanks all!
glad to assist - and tx for feedback
Glad to hear it. Thank you much. : )
- what did the drive come out of? This system?
- any encryption used on it?