Any good software to format portable Hard disk

Hey guys does any one know any good software to format portable hard disk rather than windows default.
The thing is There has been bad sector in my hard disk .Its copying and pasting speed get reduces and many of file in my hard-disk are so bad that i am unable to copy it.
Even the movies store in harddisk hangs after some time.
So I am formating my harddisk ...
Please any suggestion to my problem .....
Telll me any good software ... which will increase copying and pasting speed, recover bad sector and etc .....

You may also like to try using the tools from Parted Magic.
You'll need to either burn an ISO to make a bootable disk
or you can also use the software by creating a bootable
flash drive.

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If you're having that much trouble with your portable harddisk, you may want to think about replacing it altogether.
You can reformat it and mark bad sectors in the process (Windows itself does this just fine) but you'll invariably end up with more bad sectors and eventually total failure. And that means total loss of all data.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Download from here .

Does exactly what it is supposed to do - and more specifically, when and where others won't.

Isn't the HP tool meant strictly for USB flash drives (and making them bootable)?

I would expect Softpedia to say that about almost anything. Sounds like marketing-speak to me. :)

But then, wouldn't a simple clean in Diskpart followed by a fresh, new partition suffice if the goal is to wipe out that VCD image?

Corazon said:

...But then, wouldn't a simple clean in Diskpart followed by a fresh, new partition suffice if the goal is to wipe out that VCD image?

I really do not know. That hidden partition is in UDF Format. That is why most conventional tools cannot remove it, fdisk, Gparted included. - and HP Format tool can as confirmed by users..Will Diskpart remove an UDF partition? If that was so simple people wouldn't have been so desperate and it would have been mentioned. There are lots of posts and threads on it. ( It is not a Video CD image, it is Virtual CDROM drive.)

So my statement holds - Does exactly what it is supposed to do - and more specifically, when and where others won't.

Fair enough - it's just that I know clean is designed to wipe out any partition information altogether and make the disk look like a brandnew, truly empty disk to Windows (which then needs reinitialized). It does so by indiscriminately erasing the first and last 2048 physical sectors of the disk and filling them with zeroes.

This method is practically foolproof, or should be - but just to be safe, I like to instruct Diskpart to rescan after a clean command as well, forcing the system to recheck all disks and their state and update its own disk information.