Broken external hard drive. hitachi 500gb

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  1. gameover11
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    Broken external hard drive. hitachi 500gb


    please help... thanks in advance

    its been 3days and its still scanning
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  3. Golden
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    ?????

    What are you trying to do?
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  4. gameover11
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    Golden said:
    ?????

    What are you trying to do?
    i want to format the disk but when i connect it in my laptop i cant see it in my computer and when i open partition wizard it sees my hard drive but its says bad disk.
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  6. Golden
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    Try creating the partition in Partition Wizard.
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  7. gameover11
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    Golden said:
    Try creating the partition in Partition Wizard.
    how will i do that sir? thanks for replying. is it okay if i cancel it?
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  8. gameover11
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    and it always say this please help
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  10. jumanji
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    Looks like Golden is away. So taking over.

    Yep, you can cancel. No harm.

    If your Hitachi drive shows as Bad Disk in Partition Wizard, the prognosis is not good - from my observation in many cases.

    Yet, no harm trying to format the drive.

    In Partition Wizard, select the right drive/partition, and then Delete partition followed by Format partition. When you have set up partition details, click on Apply. Let us see what happens.

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  11. gameover11
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    I dont have options like that.
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  12. Golden
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    Right-click on the disk..what options are shown?
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  13. DocBrown
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    You might try download the Hitachi HD Fitness Test Utility Disk to run tests on the HD.


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