seagate HDD wont format

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  1. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #11

    Kabliga,
    Zigzag's suggestion made me realize that I'd missed including some links.
    Code:
        
      Hard drive diagnostics and utilities Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
      latest diagnostic software and utilities from the manufacturer of your hard drive(s).
     
     
      
    Conner
    Fujitsu
    Hitachi
    IBM
    Maxtor
    Quantum
    Samsung
    Seagate
    Toshiba
    Western Digital
       
       
      Hitachi Drive Fitness Testhttp://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor...2_v416_b00.iso
      tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives without overwriting data
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  2. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #12

    Hi Karlsnooks

    This is one I use for base use.

    Try a full clean & full format.
    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
    1) Boot DVD.
    2) Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)

    Type in command line
    DISKPART
    LIST DISK OR List Volume (If you have partitions)
    SELECT DISK # (win HD)
    CLEAN ALL
    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
    SELECT PARTITION 1
    ACTIVE
    FORMAT=NTFS
    ASSIGN
    EXIT
    EXIT
    seagate HDD wont format-list-disk.png
    seagate HDD wont format-list-volume.png
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  3. Posts : 4,517
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #13

    I would check the SATA cables, make sure they are connected securly.
    Possibly try a different SATA cable, or even a different port.

    It could be this simple & I have seen this same issue due to a faulty SATA cable.
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  4. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Wishmaster said:
    I would check the SATA cables, make sure they are connected securly.
    Possibly try a different SATA cable, or even a different port.

    It could be this simple & I have seen this same issue due to a faulty SATA cable.
    i have looked and made sure the cable was connected securely and even tried a different port on the motherboard, same thing happened. though i didnt try replacing the cable, as it seemed a lil too consistent on the failure to be a cable problem but i'll look at it next shutdown.

    zigzag3143 said:

    Go to seagate and download their diagnostic tool. run it on the drive and you will have your answer

    ken
    seatools for DOS you mean? gave me an error code of A6ABEA68 when i ran the short/long test. oddly enough seatools for windows gave a slightly different error code, A6ABEAE8 for a long test, the short test completed. i didnt see anywhere on the seagate site that would tell me what this error code means though, other the obvious conclusion i can infer.

    now, on to you karl, i did each of your steps and it failed at some percentage of trying to format the disk and said that the parameter was incorrect and to see the system log event viewer for details. which is exactly the same result i got upon doing this in a command prompt inside windows and thus where i get those events. now, i could try a clean all at the diskpart prompt but i wouldnt be starting it until i'm going to bed for the evening (12 hours is quite a while.....) so any other solutions? the repair disk i believe met with the exact same result, but i will try it again if think it will help.
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  5. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM
    Thread Starter
       #15

    so i tried changing out the cables and doing a clean all in diskpart. the cable change had no effect and the clean allcommand failed at some percentage saying that the file could not be found.

    any ideas? or does this one just need to head back to seagate?
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