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Riders
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external 500gb drive gone crazzy

hii all. i have a external 500gb seagate hdd drive. i lost its bill and box so ik this much only except of its s/n and p/n. so a month ago my drive was hit by a virus then it went crazzy so i formatted it. then it reapeared tho my pc was clean and i dont use it other pc till ik its clean. so i formated it again but the same. do i ignored it then like after 4days it didnt show up on my pc. i tried on my friends pc but still nothing. so i reinstalled my windows and changed usb wire and still nothing. and then after a week or so it showed up but as not accessible and said it needs to be formatted and i tried the same but it didnt and a msg appeared saying "windows cant formatt the drive". pls tell me at to do. and i have posted pics just i case u wanna see what it looks like.
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AskTheLeaf
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Registered: ‎06-13-2011
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Re: external 500gb drive gone crazzy

Try formatting the drive with DISKPART to see if will work. Instructions for the process can be found at the bottom of this knowledge base article:

 

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207837en?language=en_US

 

Let me know how this works out.

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