Unable to format drive no matter what utility.

[acidpsycho]

Hi,

I had been using a RAID 0 configuration with 2 500GB WD HDDs. All of a sudden I got a crash and when I tried to start my windows 7 64 bit back up, the windows auto-repair utility couldn't fix it to start it up. After a lot of trouble shooting I decided to just blank the drives and attempt to re-format. I deleted the RAID configuration as well as the HDDs themselves. However, windows 7 would not format them. I can delete / create new partitions, however they will not format.

I tried to use an ubuntu disc and it crashes before I can get a chance to even get to the disc format utility. I've since removed both drives and used an older one that was old but working. It gave me the same problems of unable to format/ubuntu crashing.

Has anyone heard of anything like this before? This is very strange to me and I'm about out of options. I would appreciate any advice/ideas.

PS I've ran memtest86 and the windows memory tests a bunch of times and they all came out ok. I'm really confused as to whats going on.

theyre also SATA drives so jumpers on the hdd are not an issue

Thanks a lot,
- AP

[EINSTEIN_007]

Have you tried to run diagnostics on the hard drive:

Conner Hard Drives: Use Seagate Utilities

Fujitsu Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

Hitachi Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

IBM Hard Drives: Use Hitachi Utilities*

Maxtor Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

Quantum Hard Drives: Use Maxtor Utilities

Samsung Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

Seagate Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

Toshiba Hard Drives: Use Hitachi or Maxtor Utilities

Western Digital Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here

[acidpsycho]

hey I got a fix but only after flashing the cmos. one drive was bad one was working. not sure why it wouldnt format til the flash tho but thats what it took.

thanks for the help

[ashermechwel]

Ok that problem normally occurs because of suddenly system crash that not a big problem. i suggest you to partition manger software its helps you to format this Hard drive.