I have a Western Digital 3200JS Caviar Hdd
I have tried everything on this thing, the Western digital tools say that their is a smart error, Fdisk has a non dos partition that has -224mb alocated, and this is a 320gb hdd and FDISK reports it as only being 8024kb, windows failed to format it, it just removes the drive from explorer after trying to format it and can't access it even before then
i don't know what else to do, is their anything i can try
anybody know anything
The drive you are working now was formatted in ntfs before so fdisk recognized it as non dos partition. You should delete the non-dos partition in fdisk. Or use a disk utility from the drive manufacturer to delete the partition and format the drive.
The smart error refers to the hard drive which is about to fail. If the above procedure doesn't help, I think you need to replace the drive.
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