ninjageek Posted August 26, 2008 CID Share Posted August 26, 2008 I have a 250 gig seagate that has me baffled. Windows says it can not access it, I can not format because of "errors". Was fine yesterday. Think its bad? I ran seagate test on it and it says its "locked". Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x_6985381 Posted August 26, 2008 CID Share Posted August 26, 2008 Have you tried Re-formatting it ? Using an Operating system install, I.e: Windows XP Install, Windows Vista, anything that could Format it without loading anything but the Windows Disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 26, 2008 CID Share Posted August 26, 2008 make a boot disk and format it outside of windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x_6985381 Posted August 26, 2008 CID Share Posted August 26, 2008 dlewis23, you got infected with bugs yo, you should get that checked out man. Spybot - Search & Destroy should help you rid 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted August 27, 2008 CID Share Posted August 27, 2008 You could also run Darik's Boot & Nuke. It will wipe out everything on the harddrive. Than reinstall Windows. http://www.dban.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted August 27, 2008 Author CID Share Posted August 27, 2008 Yes I have tried to reformat outside of windows with a boot disk. No luck. Its like its locked? Windows sees it but can not access it. I have no clue what else to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted August 27, 2008 CID Share Posted August 27, 2008 Try Darik's Boot & Nuke. Download it / Burn it to a CD / Than boot the computer off the CD. Let it run till it is finish. It will take some time to finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted August 27, 2008 CID Share Posted August 27, 2008 Try Darik's Boot & Nuke. Download it / Burn it to a CD / Than boot the computer off the CD. Let it run till it is finish. It will take some time to finish. It will take about 3+hrs to complete but when its done you will have one clean hard drive. When you format don't use "quick format"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted August 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well tried the boot and nuke. Nope. Its locked and I have NO CLUE how to unlock the silly thing. Thanks seagate. Thats fine. If I can not get it figured out I will just get a diffrent harddrive. Thats the one reason I love having a slave drive. One drive goes bad, which happens I still have another drive to run from til I get the bad one replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted August 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well I finally found the software to unlock it. Problem is the only password (seagate default) just dosent work. So I pitched the harddrive (after spending some time and releasing some frustration on it with some tools), Needless to say thats one harddrive that is dead and forsure can never be recoverd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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