Windows 7: DISKPART & HDD help - Clean All interrupted, disk no longer found.

I have a new WD (Caviar Black) 1.5TB HDD. It was was in the middle of the Clean All process in DISKPART when it was interrupted during the process. It was not stopped via ctrl+c and a follow up run of 'Clean', but exited out of DISKPART and machine reset instead. Going back into DISKPART, the disk is no longer listed with the others HDD"s.



So, can this be fixed? Is this HDD now bricked because of a moment of sheer idiocy? This was pre-install on the Windows 7 64 dvd, so no access to the OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Have you checked it in the BIOS? Is it there or not?

Please use a third party Partition Manager like Acronis Disk Director Boot Disk or Partition Wizard Boot Disk to find out if the HDD is visible in them. If yes then delete the partition, recreate and reformat it again. Then go back to DiskPart and it should have become visible again.

If it is not visible then unplugging and re-plugging the HDD may be of help.

Thanks for the reply, but I've already solved the issue and another involving BSOD upon startup of newly installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Luckily I still had the old HDD with the 32bit build of Windows 7 installed. Swapped SATA leads over and proceeded to re-detect, then reformat and partition with DiskPart.

The whole ordeal can be directly blamed at NVIDIA for their wonderfully useless and OS breaking HD Audio Drivers. Allowing them to (begrudgingly) re-install and disabling them allowed the graphics drivers to install without hanging the system.

All's well that ends well.

Unless you are trying to make data unrecoverable by forensics then you only ever need Diskpart Clean Command, and you really only need it if you have install problems that require clearing the boot sector.

I would test the HD with maker's HD Diagnostic extended CD scan and Disk Check.