I need Help with my Hard-drive Formatting?

Question

Everytime I try to Reformat my Extra Hard-drive, it becomes "Not Accessible" because the "Parameter is incorrect". I have tried over and over again.

This was used before me, then it was cleared and I am trying to Partition it and stuff. Everytime I finish, it says Healthy etc. but it had said it had encountered an error.

Then when i double click on it, it says it is not accessible.

HELP!?!?!?

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Answer 1

You left out some very imp details like: what Os you use, what you are using to partition the drive.

(Assuming that the Drive is working!)

Anyway:

You can try using the diskmgmt.msc (start -> run -> diskmgmt.msc) as admin, and formatting there.

If it doesn't work, then:

You need to restart and try partitioning in safe mode(Press f8 at the before windows boots).

On linux it's simpler:



Simply run gnuparted (after un-mounting (umount /place/where/drive/is/mounted) it rarely fails.

On OpenSuSe:

Yast can do it fast and easy without a manual unmounting:

If all else fails:

Run a live linux os with a partitioner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD

http://puppylinux.org/

and follow the linux instructions above.