Raw Hard drive. Format and diskpart fails.

karlsnooks said:

Run Seagate Tools as suggested to you by Britton30.

Hey karlsnooks i tried but it disappears as soon as i run seatools. It probably wouldn't report anything bad anyway as windows says it's online and working fine. Ill reboot my computer and try to catch it without it disappearing a couple times.

edit: Damn, the hard drive keeps disappearing! Sometimes after boot it's there sometimes it's not. Sometimes it doesnt even show up in diskpart. This hard drive can't be dead because in bios it always shows up. When i used to dual-boot (or whatever it's called) xp it never disappeared in xp. It was perfect in xp. But when i loaded up windows 7 every 10 minutes or so it disappeared. I removed xp and still have the issue. This hard drive was from a prebuilt computer that was bought in 2005 and that computer ran xp. Maybe this hard drive only decently works with xp. So now all i need is a way to force format this hard drive.

It sounds as though the drive has compatibility issues with Windows 7, particularly as it worked with XP.

Either that or the drive has given up the ghost.

A Hd can show BIOS when it is going down.

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?
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theog said:

A Hd can show BIOS when it is going down.

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html

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Hey, I cant see it anymore from disk management. Anything that uses D drive seems to make it disappear. I will try karlsnooks solution.