One of my Harddrives just ate it

[imported_KuJaX]

I have a SATA harddrive that has seemed to eat it. I went into computer management in windows XP and it recognizes the "disk 1" but it says it is "Unreadable" at the bottom. Anyone know a program I can use to format this drive to NTFS and see if it even will do that? When I right click on the drive, it won't let me "convert to basic Disk" and under "disk 1" it says "Dynamic". Any help? I wonder if this is still under warranty, only a year old maybe.

 

[Insane3D]

What did it eat? :shocked:

Seriously though, have you tried to format it somehow? Maybe pop it into a another machine and try?

 

[imported_KuJaX]

yea that is what i just tried. and it said "Format failed". hehe and now it isnt in "my computer" anymore.

 

[imported_KuJaX]

now after restarting that systemn, it says

"disk 1" "dynamic" "Online" and under (H it says "healthy" ..................

 

[imported_KuJaX]

okay well that is wierd. I just like made new partition for the entire thing, and now it works. What program is out there so that I can check sectors? Just degrag it?

 

[Blazer]

all major hd makers have downloadable diag programs to use,try one