How to get in contact with a harddrive ?

@whs

Sorry, here it is again, and the right disk is selected.

I have attached what I see, when the Computer Management starts up.

The window "Initialize Disk" starts up.

I have the MBR checked here.

Clicking "OK" here, and the window "Virtual Disk Manager" appears.

The same procedure starts again, by right clicking Disk 0, and choose Intilialize Disk

Is it ok this time or ?. Sorry for having not made myself clear enough

@jumanji

Partition Wizard:

It detected the disk, and I ran the option to recover the partitions, but as I shall be away for some days, I stopped that again.

The disk as it is now is connected to a SATA port on the computer. It is installed as you say it.

My post,which I deleted immediately because I thought it was not appropriate :) before whs responds to your query, not only queried the results of PW but also said since the drive in question is installed as a second drive there was no need to run it - Partition Wizard - from a bootable CD, and you could as well install Partition Wizard in Windows and run it.

I was also not sure whether you want to bring the HDD on stream formatting it, or you want to recover any data from it before formatting.

Since you had run Partition Recovery Wizard, there is an intention to recover data.

Taking this into consideration I shall leave it to whs to respond to your query whether you should go ahead with initialising the drive.

whs said:

With Disk0 selected you got a different error message. It points to a problem on the disk. See whether running a chkdsk /r in command prompt can fix it.

I cannot give the disk a name, then how to use

Code:

chkdsk/r ?

I got this.

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk 0: /r
The drive, the path, or the file name is not valid.

C:\Windows\system32>

I hope some other will knock on the door here to solve that question.

Your guess could have solved it, thanks

I'll be back again probably on wednesday or thursday due to a hospital visit.

Untill then all the best und auf wiederscreiben.

My guess is that drive has a custom file structure/format that windows can't handle. It came out of a cable box right? Go to the drive makers web site and look for a utility to low level format the drive, or something that will wipe it clean by writing all zeros to it. Then see if windows will initialize it. Your not going to be able to recover any files on it, not easily anyway.