DISK FORMATTING TOOL
DISK FORMATTING TOOL
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
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Re: DISK FORMATTING TOOL
hm, is it recognized in BIOS? if yes is it displayed in the disk manager (start->run->diskmgmt.msc)?
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Re: DISK FORMATTING TOOL
B_B is spot on but in case you wanted another tool use a Linux live disk and mount it. Then format it.
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Re: DISK FORMATTING TOOL
On the note of live linuxCD for disk formatting, partitioning and the like. GParted is amazing.
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Re: DISK FORMATTING TOOL
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
buffer I/O error on device sdb,sector 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed
Re: DISK FORMATTING TOOL
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.
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.
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