DISK FORMATTING TOOL

[intern3t]

I have a 500g drive that is crashed,when plugged on my pc,it doesn't display the drive.Does any one know of any disk formatting tool that i can use in detecting the drive and to format it.thanks

[bad_brain]

hm, is it recognized in BIOS? if yes is it displayed in the disk manager (start->run->diskmgmt.msc)?

[floodhound2]

B_B is spot on but in case you wanted another tool use a Linux live disk and mount it. Then format it.

[lilrofl]

On the note of live linuxCD for disk formatting, partitioning and the like. GParted is amazing.

[intern3t]

yea i tried it all,but i get some kind of error message:

buffer I/O error on device sdb,sector 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed

[lilrofl]

The only time I've seen that error was when my BIOS was checking for USB devices as a boot option, and I had a USB flash card reader plugged in with no card inserted.

Based on that experience alone, I would ask you to change the boot order in the BIOS to start with the HD, and give it another go.

Barring that a look at your fstab might be helpful to figure out what sdb is pointing to.