Windows Format a Partition on Disk?

It's OK if you want to try, but I would think that testing the hard drive first would be a better option.
 

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essenbe said:
It's OK if you want to try, but I would think that testing the hard drive first would be a better option.
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Yeah It Didn't work it was worth a shot, lol
 

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jumanji said:
Hi raiden32,

Download Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS from WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD VelociRaptor

Prepare a bootable DOS pen drive with Rufus. Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

View attachment 263122

Extract the zip file into the root of the bootable DOS pen drive.

Boot from the pen drive and against the command prompt type dlgdiag5.exe and press enter.

This will run the diagnostic Tool. Follow the instructions in the Western digital website to run the tests.
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What do I do next I am lost at the moment , I tried to follow instructions but they didn't make sense to me. I have the dlgdiag5 on desktop and the Rufus USB on opened now what?

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Click the Start icon in Rufus to make a Bottable USB flash drive, then copy the WD HD diagnostic program to the USB drive. Boot the Vista Laptop with the USB Flash drive, NOT VISTA. Then run the WD diagnostic program.


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Click the Start icon in Rufus to make a Bottable USB flash drive, then copy the WD HD diagnostic program to the USB drive. Boot the Vista Laptop with the USB Flash drive, NOT VISTA. Then run the WD diagnostic program.
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Edit: Never mind I got it. I am going to run select drive option . I will let you know what happens.
 
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Edit: Never mind it give me some sort of error. I will take a picture of it next time as right now I am running the dlgdiag5 Extended Test.
 

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It all depends on the size of the HD & what problems it finds. It could take an hour or several hours.
 

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EDIT: I ran an extended test and this is what it give me. I am starting to think this is a hardrive issue. The only way I believe this can be fixed is by replacing the hardrive.
 

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Hi, Sorry, I was out for dinner and just returned.

I would prefer that you select MS-DOS in the Rufus dropdown menu as shown in my screenshot. Then click on Start to create the bootable DOS pen drive. This is the first part - creating a bootable DOS pen drive.

You have already downloaded dlgdiag_5_20.zip. Is it not? Now extract it to a folder say WD DiagDOS.

07-04-2013 22-22-34.jpg

Now copy these two files to the bootable DOS pen drive. At the end of it your bootable DOS pen drive should look like this.

07-04-2013 22-39-04.jpg

Now boot your PC that has the Western digital drive on which you want to run the diagnostics with this pen drive.

Against the command prompt type dlgdiag5.exe and press enter to run the DOS program.

Follow the instructions given in the Western Digital website on running the test.

It is bed time for me now. So may be others will help you if in need.

EDIT: Ignore this. By the time I composed this reply and posted it in my sleepy mood, I find much has happened. And you have Doc helping - good hands. So I retire for the day..
 

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Those look like pretty poor worst results. What is the exact Model # of that WD HD ? I want to do some searches on it.
 

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DocBrown said:
Those look like pretty poor worst results. What is the exact Model # of that WD HD ? I want to do some searches on it.
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I will look at it right now. Let me boot up dlgdiag5 it tells me the Model #. Give me 5 minutes.

EDIT: Model: WDC WD5000BEVT-00A03T0
 

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Raiden did you use the ISO I supplied to you ? It has hard drive fitness test and then some
 

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VistaKing said:
Raiden did you use the ISO I supplied to you ? It has hard drive fitness test and then some
Click to expand...

Right now I am downloading it .

EDIT: Well what do you want me to do now, there are many options I can choose from.
 

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Choose HDD
 

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Should be an option called Diagnostics
 

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You Know what I am not going to bother. I been working to hard on this and I just have other things to do.
 

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Alrighty .
 

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Well, if you want to give up on this HD. NewEgg.com has a similar model for $ 59.99 w/ Free shipping.

WD5000BPVT
 

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