I am having a problem formatting a disk drive.
I just installed Windows 7 on a 1TB WD hard drive. No problems, and Windows 7 is excellent.
I have a second HD in my computer, a Seagate 500GB ST3500320NS, that I want to use for backup.
The Seagate drive was working fine (it had files and folders on it that were all read fine in W7), but I wanted to clean it off completely, so I decided to Format it.
I highlighted the drive, right clicked, and selected format. It took about an hour to slowly format the drive, but when it got to the end, I get the message, Unable to Format Drive.
The drive is now unusable, and no matter what I try, I cannot get it to format. I've even used disk management (it says the drive is: Simple / Basic / RAW / Healthy (Active / Primary Partition) / 465.76 GB.
Any suggestions?