Hard drive Takes Hours to format

[Ockerr]

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers

 

[Rod Speed]

The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner couldnt
format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7 hours I
have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe its
stuffed.

Very likely, see what samsung's diagnostic says about it.

I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk,

Surely it isnt taking that long with fdisk ?
Maybe you actually mean dos format after fdisk.

is there another way to bring it back to life.

Likely not.

The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do they Just Die like
that?

Yes, thats the most common way they fail now.

 

[CJT]

Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Maybe it's got some mode page parameters set that are incompatible with
PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

 

[Ockerr]

Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a

 

[CJT]

Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Well I think we have someone who knows something.

A Samsung SCSI drive?

ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL!

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.

Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.

 

[CJT]

Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.

Sector size would.

 

[bxf]

After all the comments that were made here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...538f?lnk=st&q=&rnum=11&hl=en#903c791cbfac538f

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

 

[Arno Wagner]

After all the comments that were made here:

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.

Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?

Arno

 

[bxf]

I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.

I wasn't really being serious

Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?

Maybe. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't let my laptop (in its
carrying case) fall off the top of my suitcase a couple of times while
travelling with it.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I wasn't really being serious

That's alright. Nothing babblemouth says is to be taken seriously.

Maybe. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't let my laptop (in its
carrying case) fall off the top of my suitcase a couple of times while
travelling with it.

Oh no. You encouraged babblemouth once again to lecture.

 

[bxf]

That's alright. Nothing babblemouth says is to be taken seriously.


Oh no. You encouraged babblemouth once again to lecture.

Be nice, FS, or I'll let RS loose!

 

[bxf]

Be nice, FS, or I'll let RS loose!

Sorry, that was meant to be:

Be nice, FR, or I'll let RS loose!

 

[Rod Speed]

After all the comments that were made here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...538f?lnk=st&q=&rnum=11&hl=en#903c791cbfac538f

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism
that detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that
was its home and then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

Nope, its never done like that.

Its certainly possible to have the ATA security set in the laptop,
but the symptoms would be different if that was the problem.