Can't access my hardrive

[Olice]

It stays connected but it'll either be stuck at 0% or say that the parameter is incorrect.

 

[rsvr85]

Can you format it through disk management?

 

[Olice]

Nope, when I tried it, it said Windows cannot complete the format.

 

[Frostmourne]

The drive is a dud - is it Seagate by any chance? Can you try another external drive.

 

[rsvr85]

I know it sounds odd, but, shutdown your PC with the USB drive still plugged in. Wait for everything to spin down and unplug the drive, boot up your PC again, wait for Windows to load up fully and then plug in the drive. Run through the diskpart commands again (from the top).

 

[Olice]

Frostmourne: No, it's a LaCie. Currently, I don't have another drive.

rscr85: Still the same result, either it's stuck at 0% or gives me the parameter error.

 

[Frostmourne]

You can try removing the drive and stick it in your pc, but I think its broken.

 

[Olice]

Thanks everyone! I sort of fixed it, I couldn't seem to format it to ntsf so I changed it to fat32 format for now. It seems to be working, so I was wondering if it's okay to leave it at that?

 

[rsvr85]

Using fat32 is fine unless you require otherwise. Note that fat32 cannot hold a file over the size of 4GB and security is reduced.

Please tell me you where trying NTFS & not NTSF?!?!

Anyway, so the drive is accessible in Explorer, everything is recognized, able to read/write?

It's still odd (& bugging me) that it won't accept NTFS as a vaild parameter.......

 

[Olice]

Oh right, typo, I meant NTFS. And yes, the drive is accessible and everything is recognized. So far, reading/writing is okay too.

Also, in what ways are the security reduced?

 

[rsvr85]

I'm not expert in file systems, see the link above.
You'll immediately notice though, that you cannot change permissions on anything on that drive not are the ACL etc.

As i previously said, if FAT32 meets your needs then stick with it, if you need the functions that come with NTFS, i'd look at something like testdisk.