Nothing will format my USB HD

[stakka]

Hi all,

I had a 1TB lacie HD, the power failed so I opened the case to reveal 2 x 500 GB drives. one i connected internalally to SATA - no problem there. The other I brought an enclosure for (SATA to USB 2), connected it USB 2 but nothing will format it. I get write protected error or just unable to format or create a partiton. Its a seagate drive and the jumper settings seem to only restrict transfer rate from 3gb to 1.5gb - nothing about primiary or slave in the jumper settings

One thing is that both of the HDs appear to have the same product number (maybe thats serial number or product ID)

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks
Shaun

PS tried Swiss army knife
HP USB format tool
Easeus partiton manager

 

[Lemon13]

so what when u connect that one direct to internal sata?

 

[cdogg]

I was thinking the same thing. Can't you temporarily connect the problem drive internally to one of your SATA controllers?

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[stakka]

I linked it up SATA and it worked fine, I managed to format it, give it a name and letter everything seems fine. then i took it out and put in back in the enclosure and it showed up in mycomputer as local disc with no total size/free space info, in properties file system is showing as RAW

I tried to format it again and swiss army knife says 'read/write error' then crashes
Easeus & XP disc management doesnt see it at all
HP USB format tools says 'there is no media in the specified device'

is this a jumper issue? or maybe USB driver?

Any ideas?
Shaun

 

[cdogg]

No idea. There could be something hosed in your registry. I would try it on another PC first to see, before I would assume it's a hardware issue.

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[wahnula]

Its a seagate drive...

Anyone think this could be related to the recent Seagate firmware issue?

Tony

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[vacunita]

Your USB enclosure may be toast. If the Drive functions when connected directly but not in the enclosure, then it points to the enclosure.

Do both drive's behave the same way when plugged into the external enclosure?

Or is it just the one?



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[Grenage]

Anyone think this could be related to the recent Seagate firmware issue?

It's unlikely if it's working ok inside the machine. Software corruption or a defective enclosure are the likely candidates.

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[stakka]

well i changed the jumper setting from 3gb transfer to 1.5gb transfer and it shows up now. So i guess USB drives have to be 1.5gb transfer... Well its working so thanks guys for ideas

I have another question but I guess I'll start a new post for it

Shaun