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Can't format/partition HD for the love of god
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Can't format/partition HD for the love of god
I have a Seagate HD that is recognized by the BIOS and passes extensive DFT's by both the Seagate DFT and a 3rd party one. The problem is the drive has a bad partition. It says so in Partition Magic and won't let me partition it, it gives me a Partition Table Error #105 error. Disk Director wont' even recognize either of my two Sata HD's (weird cuz it only recognizes my USB External) and I can't format the HD in Windows. What can I do here?
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Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive?
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have you tried using a windows 98 boot disk and f disk?
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Download SeaTools and try and put the hard drive in factory state. I do that before every format.
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download killdisk (3rd party software). This software will rewirte the whole disc's to 0's, and then you should be able to repartition, since all partitions will be gone.
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Shouldn't be too bad. I think it should be able to write you disc's to 0's in about the same ammount of time it would take to do a full format, or maybe as long as it would take to defrag the disk if it was like 75% full. fire it up and let it run overnight.
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Going i7
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Try deleting the partition then making a new one, as opposed to just reformatting.
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