Here's the story.. I hooked up this 2.5" hdd (40gb) my computer via a USB 2.0 enclosure. I wanted to erase it because I'm selling it. I started up Partition Magic 8.0 and told it to delete all the partitions and "Secure Erase" so no data can be recovered.
It went up until 30%, then errored. Now the drive shows as 40GB completely unallocated data. I tried to create a new partition, but I got error #702. I tried it every way I could. NTFS, ext3, FAT, same error. I tried it with and without drive letters, start at the end, start at the beginning.
Read about error #702 - http://tinyurl.com/dbhht (useless...)
I also tried using Windows native disk management. Trying to create a partition gives an error and says to check the system log. I don't even know where the system log is, and I can guarantee it doesn't offer any helpful info.
My next step is to mount the drive in linux but I never mounted a usb drive before, so it may be difficult. I wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas first.
It went up until 30%, then errored. Now the drive shows as 40GB completely unallocated data. I tried to create a new partition, but I got error #702. I tried it every way I could. NTFS, ext3, FAT, same error. I tried it with and without drive letters, start at the end, start at the beginning.
Read about error #702 - http://tinyurl.com/dbhht (useless...)
I also tried using Windows native disk management. Trying to create a partition gives an error and says to check the system log. I don't even know where the system log is, and I can guarantee it doesn't offer any helpful info.
My next step is to mount the drive in linux but I never mounted a usb drive before, so it may be difficult. I wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas first.
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