Hard Drive Won't Format

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Mccaula718

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I tried to reformat my hard drive and it will not fromat. When i format it, it gets to around 99 percent and just sits there. When i try quick format, it won't even start. Does this mean my hd failed?
 
download a gparted iso burn it and boot from it. then you can do your format.
 
more info please. How are you trying to format it? A second disk within windows? Booting to a bootdisk? Is this ATA/SATA?
 
Its a seagate 250gb sata II 7200rpm hard drive bought last christmas. I recently upgraded to vista(installed on other disk) so i decided to wipe this drive clean as well. I have been just right clicking the disk in vista and selecting format drive.
 
try going into diskmanagement (start-> run-> diskmgmt.msc <enter> ) and going from there. Delete all the partitions on the drive, set new partitions, and format. let us know how that works.
 
I attempted the disk management method and it stopped at 99percent again. I went on to install xp on the hard drive thinking i would be able to get back into vista, but that did not work. I then installed vista on it which won't let me use the 80gb hd for vista and will not allow me to delete or format that disk either. Why is this such a pain in the ass.
 
Mccaula718 said:
I attempted the disk management method and it stopped at 99percent again. I went on to install xp on the hard drive thinking i would be able to get back into vista, but that did not work. I then installed vista on it which won't let me use the 80gb hd for vista and will not allow me to delete or format that disk either. Why is this such a pain in the ass.
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At that point, i would boot off of an old school DOS floppy, and try to FDISK the drive. if that doesnt work, RMA it.
 
I don't own a dos floppy and the 250gb is working perfectly. I just need to find out how to format the 80gb now or atleast just get vista off of it.
 
After all the trouble and time youve put into recovering anything off it, do you really need vista off it? 80 gigs is nothing, my iPod holds more than that. You can get a replacement for like :40bux: off of the egg.
 
Its not a huge deal obviously, but since i have it, i would like to use it. are there any free programs like partition magic that work for vista?
 
I did what you said nitro, but now i can't get into windows. It says please put system disk in to boot. no option for vista
 
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