Have I "bricked" my extrenal

Hi,

Using Partition Wizard, what messages do you get if you try to Format the drive?

Right-click on it, then select FORMAT from the context menu.

Regards,
Golden

Hiyya Golden
Only thing that comes up is "modify" and all refs to that like everything else is greyed out and I can't even snip it to let you see.

Hi,

If you select MODIFY, you should see an option called SET TO PRIMARY or SET TO LOGICAL. Do you see those?

Regards,
Golden

Golden said:

Hi,

If you select MODIFY, you should see an option called SET TO PRIMARY or SET TO LOGICAL. Do you see those?

Regards,
Golden

No mate all greyed out Modify is the only word in black in the whole view when I click onto that drive.

Ouch. And it still shows as Bad Disk in Partition Wizard right?

You've already tried DISKPART, you've effectively tried a Linux distribution (Parted Magic), I'm not sure what else to try...let me mull this over a bit.

Regards,
Golden

And if this external drive is connected to another computer?

and if the connection cable is replaced?

OK. One more thing, Its a Seagate, so lets see what the SeaTools diagnostic tells us about this disk.

Download, install and run the Windows version of Seatools. See if it recognises the drive. There are a bunch of tests you can run. Try the short generic test first.

SeaTools | Seagate

It looks like this.

Regards,
Golden

Golden said:

OK. One more thing, Its a Seagate, so lets see what the SeaTools diagnostic tells us about this disk.

Download, install and run the Windows version of Seatools. See if it recognises the drive. There are a bunch of tests you can run. Try the short generic test first.

SeaTools | Seagate

It looks like this.

Regards,
Golden

Ok that sounds worth a burl.

NO mate comes up with a fail on in depth scan / test the short test passed and now my snip is playing up something rotten.

Thanks to everyone for helping out but I don't think the drive is worth this sort of hassle - just put it down to bad luck