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Problems re-formatting SATA Drive
I had a PC with a 1TB Samsung Serial ATA HDD. The mother board packed up so I bought a new machine. I took the HD out of the old one and mounted it in an external drive housing. Over a number of weeks I managed to recover around 80% of the data from the old disk. I then decided to use that old disk as an external backup/archive drive. I thought the first thing to do would be to format it to clean it of any rubbish and start with a blank drive. However, although I have made several attempts I have failed! I keep getting a window that says I need to format it but when I click Format it says it can't format the drive!
There were no jumpers fitted to it when I removed it from the old machine and I can't see anything else that might need "adjusting" to enable me to format it.
As I said the drive is a Samsung Serial ATA around 2 years old.
It isn't recognised at all - I'd even use it without reformatting if that's my only option as at least it was mine from new!!
Both the original machine and my new one were/are working under Windows 7 - 64bit.
Has anyone got the magic spell to help me out of this fix please?
Thanks
Peter