hard drive not found after canceled formatting

[josadomi]

I have two PC's and I was planning to sell one of them. But before
that, I tried to erase the files in the hard drive of PC#1. Now the
hard drive is not even recognizable in my other PC (PC#2).

PC#1 and PC#2 are same brand and model with interchangeable parts.

Here is what happened:

I went to PC-DOCTOR 2.0 (read from a 3.5" floppy) and chose Utility >
Full erase hard drive. After starting the process, I saw that it was
going to take too long to erase. So I stopped the process about 15
seconds into it.

I decided to remove the hard drive I was trying to erase from PC#1 and
install it into PC#2 and erase it with a different program. Now PC#2
does not recognize the hard drive. I went into the BIOS and tried to
locate the hard drive that was going to be erased but it does not show
up. I installed the drive back into PC#1 and ran PC-DOCTOR (from a
floppy) and it did not find the hard drive either. Is there a fix for
this? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[PD43]

I have two PC's and I was planning to sell one of them. But before
that, I tried to erase the files in the hard drive of PC#1. Now the
hard drive is not even recognizable in my other PC (PC#2).

Why is that of consequence since you appear to want to sell PC#1?

 

[Alan]

Because if it's not working it's of no value you idiot.
Whta are you, a moron?

 

[JS]

Hopefully the manufacturer of drive you have has boot CD or Floppy that may
work.
Disk Diagnostic Utilities from:
Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3

Seagate's SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Maxtor (Now Seagate SeaTools)
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Fujitsu's Utilities
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/utilities.html

Samsung's Disk manager software
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

JS

 

[C.Joseph S. Drayton]

I have two PC's and I was planning to sell one of them. But before
that, I tried to erase the files in the hard drive of PC#1. Now the
hard drive is not even recognizable in my other PC (PC#2).

PC#1 and PC#2 are same brand and model with interchangeable parts.

Here is what happened:

I went to PC-DOCTOR 2.0 (read from a 3.5" floppy) and chose Utility >
Full erase hard drive. After starting the process, I saw that it was
going to take too long to erase. So I stopped the process about 15
seconds into it.

I decided to remove the hard drive I was trying to erase from PC#1 and
install it into PC#2 and erase it with a different program. Now PC#2
does not recognize the hard drive. I went into the BIOS and tried to
locate the hard drive that was going to be erased but it does not show
up. I installed the drive back into PC#1 and ran PC-DOCTOR (from a
floppy) and it did not find the hard drive either. Is there a fix for
this? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

If by 'I stopped the process about 15 seconds into it', you did so by
hitting the reset button, or hitting the power button you could
theoretically have damaged track 0 if that is the case, I know that
some of the Seagate Baracudas will no longer be recognizable by the
BIOS (No, I don't know why but I have seen this happen with at least a
1/2 a dozen SATA drives of that type).

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Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
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