Jacked hdd

[Tedster]

Ok, the tedster's got one...

I got a old hdd I cloned to a new hdd in a laptop. After cloning the data to the new drive, I attempted to clone data BACK to the old hard drive. In the middle of this, I realized my error. The new drive is fine and has worked for a while.

The old drive I attempted to use as a usb external drive. Now every time I plug it in on a usb port on ANY computer, I get a BSOD, and the computer crashes. I really don't want to reinstall the drive back into my laptop and format it from windows cd.

is there a way to format it via usb without crashing windows? I am sure the boot sector is corrupted causing the errors.

 

[ckrieger]

Maybe try booting up a live Linux CD, like Knoppix, and just completely nuke the thing if it's detected. After you nuke it, then reboot and see if it gives you another BSOD.

 

[Tmagic650]

Hey Tedster,

Did you get this external hard drive to work?

 

[joked u 2]

try this

I see you problem, but do you try to boot to it? if so just get a dos floppy and formatt it through dos. do you have a floppy?