Have I "bricked" my extrenal

[ICIT2LOL]

I tried Parted Magic to secure erase a Seagate external to give to someone else but nothing happened in the Parted magic set up and now even though I have the dum dum when I plug the drive in it does not show up in Computer or diskpart.

Have I killed this one?

 

[whs]

I suspect you only have unallocated space left. Go into Disk Management and define a partition. Then you'll see it in Computer.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I suspect you only have unallocated space left. Go into Disk Management and define a partition. Then you'll see it in Computer.

Ok Wolfgang I have found what you said it would be and tried to create a partition as per your tutorial using diskpart however the reply comes back as the drive is write protected.

 

[whs]

Hmm, I wonder how that came about. Try the 'Initialize to MBR Disk' function of Partition Wizard. Maybe you can restart with a clean slate.

 

[karlsnooks]

I tried Parted Magic to secure erase a Seagate external to give to someone else but nothing happened in the Parted magic set up and now even though I have the dum dum when I plug the drive in it does not show up in Computer or diskpart.

Have I killed this one?

Post display of maximized DiskManagment output per this procedure:

HOW TO POST A SNAPSHOT OF DISK MANAGEMENT DISPLAY
Run disk management:
WIN | type DISKMGMT.MSC | ENTER
WIN=key with Microsoft logo on top.


Maximize the output of Disk Management:
ALT-Spacebar key combo | X key (selects Maximize) |
Drag the field separators (such as between Status and Capacity) to show entire field.


Make a snapshot:
WIN | type SNIPPING | ENTER | New
Drag the cursor around the area you want to snip.
File | Save as | select save location and name | Save


Post the snapshot:
Post a File or Screenshot in Seven Forums

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[ICIT2LOL]

Sorry late reply - had to go out for a bit.

Tried the Partition Wizard and what Karl wanted and this is what I get.

 

[Trinty]

Sorry late reply - had to go out for a bit.

Tried the Partition Wizard and what Karl wanted and this is what I get.

Hello ICit2lol.

Follow this steps to :
1. Attach that device.
2. Go to Computer Management then to Disk Management.
3. Right click on Disk 5.
4. Click Initialize or anything other like that with Initialize.
5. Right click on Unallocated space.
6. Create new simple volume.
7. That will open new wizard and complete it.
8. That is it

I think that will work.

 

[karlsnooks]

ICit2lol,

HOW TO POST A SNAPSHOT OF DISK MANAGEMENT DISPLAY
Run disk management:
WIN | type DISKMGMT.MSC | ENTER
WIN=key with Microsoft logo on top.


Maximize the output of Disk Management:
ALT-Spacebar key combo | X key (selects Maximize) |
Drag the field separators (such as between Status and Capacity) to show entire field.


Make a snapshot:
WIN | type SNIPPING | ENTER | New
Drag the cursor around the area you want to snip.
File | Save as | select save location and name | Save


Post the snapshot:
Post a File or Screenshot in Seven Forums

 

[Trinty]

Add :

Oh I didnt saw you have problem with write protection.

I tried to find how to disable it and searched on Google.

I found this : How to Disable Write Protection on a Hard Drive | eHow.com

Maybe that can help you too.
Trinty.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Add :

Oh I didnt saw you have problem with write protection.

I tried to find how to disable it and searched on Google.

I found this : How to Disable Write Protection on a Hard Drive | eHow.com

Maybe that can help you too.
Trinty.

Hum tried T but the drive doesn't even have a letter.

I tried lock disk 5: off but it's telling me that is no recognised instruction as "lock"

Look I think the drive is dead and I might as well bin it.

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Using Partition Wizard, what messages do you get if you try to Format the drive?

Right-click on it, then select FORMAT from the context menu.

Regards,
Golden

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hiyya Golden
Only thing that comes up is "modify" and all refs to that like everything else is greyed out and I can't even snip it to let you see.

 

[Golden]

Hi,

If you select MODIFY, you should see an option called SET TO PRIMARY or SET TO LOGICAL. Do you see those?

Regards,
Golden

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hi,

If you select MODIFY, you should see an option called SET TO PRIMARY or SET TO LOGICAL. Do you see those?

Regards,
Golden

No mate all greyed out Modify is the only word in black in the whole view when I click onto that drive.

 

[Golden]

Ouch. And it still shows as Bad Disk in Partition Wizard right?

You've already tried DISKPART, you've effectively tried a Linux distribution (Parted Magic), I'm not sure what else to try...let me mull this over a bit.

Regards,
Golden

 

[karlsnooks]

And if this external drive is connected to another computer?

and if the connection cable is replaced?

 

[Golden]

OK. One more thing, Its a Seagate, so lets see what the SeaTools diagnostic tells us about this disk.

Download, install and run the Windows version of Seatools. See if it recognises the drive. There are a bunch of tests you can run. Try the short generic test first.

SeaTools | Seagate

It looks like this.

Regards,
Golden

 

[ICIT2LOL]

OK. One more thing, Its a Seagate, so lets see what the SeaTools diagnostic tells us about this disk.

Download, install and run the Windows version of Seatools. See if it recognises the drive. There are a bunch of tests you can run. Try the short generic test first.

SeaTools | Seagate

It looks like this.

Regards,
Golden

Ok that sounds worth a burl.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

NO mate comes up with a fail on in depth scan / test the short test passed and now my snip is playing up something rotten.

Thanks to everyone for helping out but I don't think the drive is worth this sort of hassle - just put it down to bad luck

 

[Trinty]

Oh, you have big problem now

I see you are using MiniTool Partition Wizard. That is one good tool, I know for this.
In this application you can make Bootable version of this I think , or you can download it directly from MiniTool website. You can try to fix that problem with this bootable tool.

If that dont help , there is small option Wipe Disk (there is Wipe Partition too, but try with Wipe Disk first). Maybe that can revive your hard disk but use it at your own risk. I didnt tested it , I never needn't to do anything like this.

If you do it , and after all this you have problem with your Hard Drive........ I'm sorry.

Trinty