Hard drive Takes Hours to format

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Ockerr

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers
 
Ockerr said:
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner couldnt
format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7 hours I
have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe its
stuffed.
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Very likely, see what samsung's diagnostic says about it.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk,
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Surely it isnt taking that long with fdisk ?
Maybe you actually mean dos format after fdisk.
is there another way to bring it back to life.
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Likely not.
The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do they Just Die like
that?
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Yes, thats the most common way they fail now.
 
Ockerr said:
Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers
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Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?
 
Ockerr said:
Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a
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Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.
 
CJT said:
Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.
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Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.
 
Previously bxf said:
After all the comments that were made here:

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.
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I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.

Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?

Arno
 
Arno said:
I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.
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I wasn't really being serious:-)
Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?
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Maybe. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't let my laptop (in its
carrying case) fall off the top of my suitcase a couple of times while
travelling with it.
 
bxf said:
I wasn't really being serious:-)
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That's alright. Nothing babblemouth says is to be taken seriously.
Maybe. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't let my laptop (in its
carrying case) fall off the top of my suitcase a couple of times while
travelling with it.
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Oh no. You encouraged babblemouth once again to lecture.
 
Folkert said:
That's alright. Nothing babblemouth says is to be taken seriously.


Oh no. You encouraged babblemouth once again to lecture.
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Be nice, FS, or I'll let RS loose! :-)
 
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