Unable To Format New Sata HDD

[Vignesh]

Good Morning All,

 

I recently purchased this WD 1TB HDD but have been unable to format/use it.

 

I've attached a screenshot from Disk Management.

 

I've tried deleting the volume and creating a new simple volume but the progress freezes at the format stage.

 

Any help with this one?

[Corvid19]

If it's not faulty hardware it could be a compatibility issue with your system. I would plug the drive into another PC (if you can) and see if you can format there.

[Vignesh]

Unfortunately I don't have another system.. this is the message I receive when trying to format...

 

[Mindovermaster Moderator]

Use http://gparted.org/

[Rail Grinder]

Just run command prompt as an administrator and run diskpart as follows:

diskpart
list disk
[look at the list and select your disk #, should be the same as the disk # listed under disk management]
select disk #
clean

 

Next time you go into disk management, you should be prompted if you want to initialize the disk. Follow the prompts to do so and format the drive as needed.

 

Otherwise you can continue with diskpart after the clean command:

 

diskpart
list disk
[look at the list and select your disk #, should be the same as the disk # listed under disk management]
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
format fs=[Filesystem type: NTFS, FAT32] quick
assign

 

[Hum]

Downloads Data Lifeguard Tools from Western Digital.

 

 

http://download.cnet.com/windows/western-digital/3260-20_4-10029018-1.html

 

 

They can Erase or Format the hard drive, lickity-split.

Edited August 29, 2016 by Hum