Hard drive help ASAP

[fastamdman]

Hey guys I have a hard drive that I need help with. Ok so I tried to install windows 7 on the hard drive and it kept saying "failed to create partition" and it wouldn't let me create a new partition, delete the partition nothing.

I put the hard drive into another system and it's showing up as unallocated space.

I need some way to create a partition on the drive, then delete it completely so I can install windows 7.

I tried to install windows xp, and the same thing happened.

Please help as I need to fix this issue ASAP.


Edit: When I open up disk management in windows 7 it pops up with disk 2 *aka the one that isn't working* and says.

You must initialize a disk before logical disk manager can access it.
Select disk 2
Use the following partition style for the selected disk
MBR
or
GPT

I have tried BOTH and neither work, it just says "Incorrect Function"


So as of now I am left with disk manager stating that disk 2 is not initialized and i have 149.01gb unallocated. Really need to get this drive working, brawr

 

[Coup27]

First you need to establish if the drive is faulty or not. Download SeaTools or similar program. I use the DOS version because it rules out Windows getting involved.

Download the burn the DOS Seatools ISO. Boot it with the drive connected in your chosen computer.

Run the long test and see how it fairs.

If it passes the tests and there are no faults, download gParted, boot it and once you have arrived at the partition editor, play about and see if it can make and delete partitions. This is all outside of Windows also. Then go from there.

 

[zuffy]

I have a similar problem with a 1TB. End up being a bad HDD.

 

[fastamdman]

I am leaning towards a bad hard drive myself actually. Man this really sucks. I need a cheap sata drive now, brawr.

I downloaded paragon partition manager and it's giving me an error with that disk, it pretty much has to be a faulty hdd at this point.

I am trying seatools in just a second but I know its going to be the same thing.

 

[Coup27]

Until you run a long test from a hdd diagnostic program you won't know for sure.

 

[fastamdman]

I just did the long generic test and it failed. I am trying a "full erase" with seatools now....and it failed lol.

Edit: So these were the results of the tests.

Short DST - Fail
Short Generic - Fail
Long Generic - Fail

So this drive is 100% dead and worthless right?

 

[Coup27]

Unless its still under warranty, then yup.