Cannot Format Hard Disk

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  1. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #21

    SIW:

    As near as we understand, the PC in question has no OS.

    He has other computers with Vista and XP.

    But we may have been misinformed.
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  2. Posts : 222
    Windows 7 x64
       #22

    jradicle11 said:
    So my hard drive would show in up bios but wouldn't show up in the windows 7 disk selection screen even after loading the drivers numerous times. I tried to format it in my brothers working computer, it said it could not format the disk. I tried to install xp, it recognized the hard disk, but again I couldn't format. I tried to boot the GParted Live and delete/create some partitions, the disk doesn't even find my hard drive.

    My question is:

    Is this a semi-common problem or do I have a faulty hard drive?

    My hard drive is in my specs.
    What model is your motherboard?

    GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Products
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  3. Posts : 16,132
    7 X64
       #23

    Hi Ig,

    You could be right.

    Nevertheless - if he attaches it to the Vista machine and initialises it there - then moves it back to 7 machine - that may do the trick. Vista/7 partitioning rules are the same.

    If Vista doesn't like it either - it is probably faulty - I am surprised Gparted didn't pick it up.
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  4. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #24

    belikexp said:
    jradicle11 said:
    so my hard drive would show in up bios but wouldn't show up in the windows 7 disk selection screen even after loading the drivers numerous times. I tried to format it in my brothers working computer, it said it could not format the disk. I tried to install xp, it recognized the hard disk, but again i couldn't format. I tried to boot the gparted live and delete/create some partitions, the disk doesn't even find my hard drive.

    My question is:

    Is this a semi-common problem or do i have a faulty hard drive?

    My hard drive is in my specs.
    what model is your motherboard?

    gigabyte - product - motherboard - products
    ga ma785gt-ud3h
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  5. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #25

    ignatzatsonic said:
    SIW:

    As near as we understand, the PC in question has no OS.

    He has other computers with Vista and XP.

    But we may have been misinformed.
    Gateway laptop running Vista, would rather not take apart.

    Custom built desktop running XP.

    Custom built desktop that contains the hard drive I'm having trouble with.

    It has only one hard drive. Nothing is on it, never been used before. I've called Gigabyte support and they told me the correct SATA ports to put my drives in so they would work in bios. By drives, I mean my optical drive and my hard drive, the only two I have connected.

    Is there anything else that needs clearing up?

    That sounded a bit hostile, I don't mean it to be.
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  6. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #26

    Sorry for the third post, an update.

    The disc is recognized in diskpart when I run command prompt during by pressing shift + F10 during the Windows 7 installation.

    Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
    --------- ------- ----- ----- ---- ----
    * Disk 0 Online 465GB 465GB

    DISKPART> select disk 0

    Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

    DISKPART> create primary partition

    Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600

    PARTITION - Create a partition.
    VOLUME - Create a volume
    VDISK - Creates a virtual disk file.
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #27

    OK, then continue with commands listed earlier in this thread.

    Your disk will almost certainly be seen as disk 0 by diskpart.

    If so, your commands would be the following, with the enter key after each one.

    diskpart

    list disk (most likely it will show as disk 0)

    Select Disk 0 (if that is what shows in the above step)

    clean

    create primary partition

    active

    format fs=ntfs quick

    exit

    the above exit command should dump you back into the Windows 7 install. Just continue on from there or post why you can't.
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  8. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #28

    Alright,

    DISKPART> clean

    DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

    DISKPART> create primary partition

    PARTITION - Create a partition.
    VOLUME - Create a volume
    VDISK - Creates a virtual disk file.

    DISKPART> active

    There is no partition selected.
    Please select a partition and try again.

    DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick

    There is no volume selected.
    Please select a volume and try again.
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  9. Posts : 152
    windows 7/windows xp/windows vista
    Thread Starter
       #29

    "create primary partition" wasn't working so I tried "create partition primary" and it worked.

    It took like 2 seconds to format, not sure if that's normal.

    Going back to install.
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  10. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #30

    my error

    you must insert this command


    select partition 1

    immediately after create partition primary

    then continue with:

    active

    formatn fs ntfs=quick


    the entire bunch is:

    diskpart

    list disk (most likely it will show as disk 0)

    Select Disk 0 (if that is what shows in the above step)

    clean

    create partition primary

    select partition 1

    active

    format fs=ntfs quick

    exit
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