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The New Guy
January 2nd, 2009, 07:03 PM
Today I think I have done one the most stupidest thing I could ever done. I was formating a 40 GB hard drive, I was using Vista, and for some reason it got stock on 80% but I decided to stop it, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah bad mistake, so I restart my computer and when it got back to the system the hard drive did not showed up on "Disk Management" I restart it a couple of more times and finally showed up. Here is what it looks like this
http://thegabfather.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/untitled.jpg?w=650&h=488
Now I don't know what to do when I click on the "initialize Disk" it give me two options "MBR(Master Boot Record" and "GTP(GUID Partition Table)" I chose MBR but nothing happens a little box appear saying "restart Disk Management and restart the computer. Please I would really appreciate if I get some help on this.

PS My Default OS is Windows XP, I have another master hard drive where I have Vista and Ubuntu, this hard drive that I have problems with is an IDE slave hard drive but I do not want to mess XP up. Thanks again. Cheers! It also when I use the XP it does not recognize the hard drive.
zmjjmz
January 3rd, 2009, 06:37 AM
Why not try reformatting the drive again?
handy
January 3rd, 2009, 06:41 AM
Today I think I have done one the most stupidest thing I could ever done.

That is great, it is all up from here. :-D
The New Guy
January 3rd, 2009, 07:38 PM
Why not try reformatting the drive again?
Because when I go to "Disk Management" and right click the disk it does not give the option to do anything, it just give me properties and help.
Raffles10
January 3rd, 2009, 09:48 PM
Try formatting with Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php).

You can boot from it just like a live cd, if it can see your drive you can reformat as ntfs or fat32 then maybe windows will read it at next boot.
The New Guy
January 4th, 2009, 01:06 AM
Try formatting with Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php).

You can boot from it just like a live cd, if it can see your drive you can reformat as ntfs or fat32 then maybe windows will read it at next boot.

I tried it with Ubuntu Live Cd, try to install Windows Vista, XP and even Windows 7 but everytime I try to format it it gives me an error. Ubuntu disk was my hope because I have installed Ubuntu many times in my PC but it just didn't work.
zmjjmz
January 4th, 2009, 09:26 AM
What error does it give you?
Bungo Pony
January 4th, 2009, 01:20 PM
One of the first lessons I learned while using Windows was NEVER use Microsoft's tools when working with drives. Doesn't surprise me that it got stuck at 80%.

Try using the Gparted live CD. It never fails me.