Partition Bad 2

[JaySwint]

I ahve a Western Digital WD800 hard drive. I just bought it, and installed it in my computer, a AMD XP 1700 with 512 Ram and a 20gig maxtor as my master. I had it all working for a while, windows Xp recognized it and all seemed to be fine. I just tried to open up my partition magic, and it comes up with an error about something being different in the HD and that I could lose information. I have tried to reformat it but it wont let me, and I have tried to set it as a master, with all the jumper settings correct and everything and then it wont recognize it. I ahve tried everything i can think of, is there any other way that I can format this HD? by the way it is a slave drive.

Thanks you very much

 

[wolluf]

Can you see the drive in disk management (run diskmgmt.msc)?
Is the bios still seeing the drive?

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

WD drives cannot be set to master (by putting jumper on master) unless there is a slave present, they can be set to CS but normally no jumper for master

 

[andyman34]

Western Digital provide a disk diagnosis utility named DataLifeguard which is available for free download.It should be able to tell you what your problem is.Another good utility for partitioning/formatting a secondary drive from within windows is ontrack diskwizard2003,a free version of this software is provided to download from seagate (works on all drives).Hope this is of some help.