sundoulos_
Posts: 12 +0
I was using drive manager in Vista to delete two partitions and reformat to a simple drive on a spare 60GB HDD. All was fine until I accidentally unplugged the power to the external case containing said drive :blackeye: in the middle of format.
When I hooked drive (USB ext case) back up and tried to explore to it - Explorer stopped responding until I killed power. Same with Drive Manager. I then went and ran cmd. Here is what I did (in bold):
...>format k:
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is NTFS.
WARNING, ALL .... WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Formatting 58625M
Volume label ..... ENTER for none>?
Creating file system structures.
The first NTFS boot sector is unwriteable.
Format failed.
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk k:
The type of file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
BTW the format process went through the % complete and took about 45 minutes.
How can I check the sectors and block off bad ones (if that would work)? But regardless, how can I fix the disk?
When I hooked drive (USB ext case) back up and tried to explore to it - Explorer stopped responding until I killed power. Same with Drive Manager. I then went and ran cmd. Here is what I did (in bold):
...>format k:
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is NTFS.
WARNING, ALL .... WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Formatting 58625M
Volume label ..... ENTER for none>?
Creating file system structures.
The first NTFS boot sector is unwriteable.
Format failed.
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk k:
The type of file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
BTW the format process went through the % complete and took about 45 minutes.
How can I check the sectors and block off bad ones (if that would work)? But regardless, how can I fix the disk?