Hard Drive not accessible in Logical Disk Manager

[JunglesMcBeef]

Hi,

I have a Western Digital HD(WDC WD800BB) that crashed recently, I have put it as a slave to a new HD to try and recover or get it working somehow. It shows up in bios as the slave drive, and even shows up as a disk drive in Device Manager, but when I click on Disk Management it freezes my comp while trying to open the Logical Disk Manager. I tried formatting it with windows cds but that failed everytime, so I am trying to find another way to format the drive to make it accessible, since it freezes in Disk Management. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[dbData]

Go to Western Digital's web site and download their drive test utility. Not only will the utility test the drive it will allow you to "zero-out" the drive. You should then be able to reformat the disk using the operating system.

As your question doesn't mention data recovery, this really should have been posted in the Desktop Hardware > PC Hardware > Hard drive issues section.


Good Luck!
Rick

http://www.data-recovery-hub.com