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Used Parted Magic on a harddrive - Now its not working anymore - Please help!

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markel00000f

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I used parted magic secure erase tool and after i've done that my harddrive stopped working.

It still shows up in BIOS and in some "HD Health checking" programs, and when i connect it windows 7 tells me its connected, but it doesnt show up under my computer.

And when I try to install the harddrive in Disk Management it only says;

"The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".


Please help me...


its a 250 GB seagate 7200rpm drive...


It did work before i did this..
 
try downloading a free HD format tool. My HDD did the same thing, so I downloaded "mini tool partition wizard home edition" plugged my HDD into my USB on my laptop and ran the program and it saw the HD. Did a format and I was set
 
Your secure erase tool blanked the drive. It cannot work unless it is formatted. You can also do it with Ultimate Boot CD (free download). And, you can also do it with a Windows Disk doing a clean install.
 
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markel00000f said:
I used parted magic secure erase tool and after i've done that my harddrive stopped working.

It still shows up in BIOS and in some "HD Health checking" programs, and when i connect it windows 7 tells me its connected, but it doesnt show up under my computer.

And when I try to install the harddrive in Disk Management it only says;

"The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".


Please help me...


its a 250 GB seagate 7200rpm drive...


It did work before i did this..
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I can't believe Windows didn't offer to initialize and format the drive. You can do it in disk manager. But come on MS, just find the drive and offer to format it.
 
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