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formatting fried hd

melekalikimaka · 2011-06-28 14:05:40

formatting hd and it well stopped, didnt realise til the other day, now i cant detect it in mac or linux or win 7? any suggestions, just need to get it detected and wiped tbh, nothing on it of importance

28-06-2011 2:05pm

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melekalikimaka

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formatting hd and it well stopped, didnt realise til the other day, now i cant detect it in mac or linux or win 7? any suggestions, just need to get it detected and wiped tbh, nothing on it of importance

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#2 28-06-2011 2:08pm

OMG Its EoinD

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So you want noone to find what was on the HDD? If it's not repairable , then get a sledge hammer or blow torch to it and have fun.

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#3 28-06-2011 2:10pm

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no its brand new, theres nothing on it, i want to use it again

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#4 28-06-2011 2:12pm

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Im_EoinD wrote: »

So you want noone to find what was on the HDD? If it's not repairable , then get a sledge hammer or blow torch to it and have fun.

OP may want to re-use it.

Do you have a caddy you can put it in and hook it up to another pc via usb?

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#5 28-06-2011 2:20pm

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If there is nothing on it send it back and get a replacement.

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#6 28-06-2011 2:24pm

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ugh, i was hoping it was just a formatting issue, got no knocks or nothing

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#7 28-06-2011 2:27pm

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sounds like it's knackered. If it's new , get a replacement.

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#8 28-06-2011 2:31pm

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damn, i was trying to format it to ext3 through macFUSE, could it really have fried it?

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