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Hard Drive Partition Table / MBR / MFT Corrupt
Hello everyone. I hope that you can shed some light on my problem that I have recently got into at my own stupidity.
Windows 7 was performing a disk check (CHKDSK) when I restarted it as I couldn't wait. Yeah I know, not the smartest thing to do. Anyway...
After the restart the Boot Manager said that it could not locate Windows etc etc. I then did everything from using the Repair function on the DVD to manually writing a new Boot table, but no luck.
I then installed W7 on another HDD and everything worked fine, but the HDD which it was installed previously is not wanting to format within W7 to use it as a logical drive.
In Disk Management it shows the HDD there saying that it's status is "Unknown" and the space is "Unallocated".
Initializing the HDD does nothing even when you select MBR or GPT from the pop-up window. After I press OK it still shows that is not initialized.
I went and installed utilities from Maxtor to see if they could help but no luck. I also tried other utilities such as Zero Recovery, Recover2000, TestDisk etc but no luck. Running TestDisk Deep Scan did not bring up anything only the error message "No Partitions Found" and another scan said:
Boot sector
Bad
Backup boot sector
Bad
First sectors (Boot code and partition information) are not identical.
Second sectors (cluster information) are not identical.
A valid FAT Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
I am not trying to recover the data, all I want to is to reset the HDD and just use it as a logical drive. I just do not know how to reset/format/re-configure either the MFT, MBR or the Partition Table.
I'm guessing that the HDD is in good working order as it is detected by the BIOS and Windows, I just can't use it!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.