Reformatting my External Hard Drive

[Extursion]

I'm trying to reformat my dad's old 500 GB hard drive. The hard drive is a seagateSD. When i try to open it its really slow and takes like 5 minutes to open a file, so i decided to reformat it and lose the data. I tried to reformat it repeatedy using these settings(Picture Attached) but the bar won't move and eventually gives me this error(2nd Attached Photo) after the first time i went to my computer to retry but instead of the hard drive symbol it showed a NTFS and a white block with little colored things inside.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[zigzag3143]

I'm trying to reformat my dad's old 500 GB hard drive. The hard drive is a seagateSD. When i try to open it its really slow and takes like 5 minutes to open a file, so i decided to reformat it and lose the data. I tried to reformat it repeatedy using these settings(Picture Attached) but the bar won't move and eventually gives me this error(2nd Attached Photo) after the first time i went to my computer to retry but instead of the hard drive symbol it showed a NTFS and a white block with little colored things inside.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Go to seagate and download their HD diagnostic tool. Sounds like the HD is toast.


Ken J

 

[Colonel Travis]

Big fan of killdisk. If that doesn't work then your drive indeed might be on its last legs.