USB Drive not working since comp crashed whie writing to it

[alanbloom]

I was using my external hard drive to back up on, as usual. However, my computer crashed while writing to the drive. And it hasn't worked ever since.

I have tried to re-partition the drive. But the progress bar goes to 2% and stays there, ie it starts trying to partition the drive and then literally sticks there.

There is a utility from Maxtor which tests the drive and says it's physically fine.

Hmmm... is there anything else I can try to get the drive formatted?

Cheers

Alan

 

[Freestone]

Try writing zeroes to the drive, i.e. a low-level format, prior to partitioning the drive. Maxtor's PowerMax utility provides this option, though I don't know if it will run on non-Maxtor drives. Seagate has a utility too