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Can't format WD Caviar Black HD
Looked around on the net for an answer to my problem and I've found some related threads here, among others this one: Original hard drive not seen, can't format
This all started when I was trying to get my HP Storageworks X310 to work again, and bought a new hard drive to rule out my old drive being faulty. I ran into some installation problems of WHS V1 on this disk (not sure why), and eventually got the old disk up working again. Now I'd like to use this one for something else, but I can't format it or do anything. When I run diskpart as described in the thread above I get the following info for the details of my disk:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 111 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 189 GB 5120 KB
Disk 3 Online 931 GB 8 MB
DISKPART> select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
WDC WD10 02FAEX-00Y9A0 USB Device
Disk ID: 2423EA7E
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 4 RAW Partition 20 GB Healthy
Volume 5 RAW Partition 911 GB Healthy
I currently have the disk hooped up to my laptop with a usb cable.
Listing volume 4 and 5 I get:
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy System
Volume 2 E Rune's File NTFS Partition 111 GB Healthy
Volume 3 F MUSIC BACKU NTFS Partition 189 GB Healthy
Volume 4 RAW Partition 20 GB Healthy
Volume 5 RAW Partition 911 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select volume 4
Volume 4 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> detail volume
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 3 Online 931 GB 8 MB
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes
Volume Capacity : 20 GB
Volume Free Space : 20 GB
DISKPART> select volume 5
Volume 5 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> detail volume
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 3 Online 931 GB 8 MB
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes
Volume Capacity : 911 GB
Volume Free Space : 911 GB
If I try to do the clean all command, I get the following message:
DISKPART> clean all
DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified.
See the System Event Log for more information.
So now I'm stuck. Any suggestions out there?