Corrupt/Inaccessible drive need help

[ZeroxPalaldin]

I recently had my acer d250 start blue screening upon boot and unable to repair. Therefore I bought a usb to sata cable to see if I can re format it. However upon connecting it to my other laptop, it shows up as two partition SYSTEM RESERVED (F and Local Disk (G. Note: these are the partition of the same external drive. F: has 100mb where 68 is used and G: shows up as 0kb. I can neither format them or even access disk management when I have these plugged in. Also it lags and make other computer operation on my computer behave differently. For example it makes all my installs time out and im unable to open some application. Upon restart without it plugged in it doesn't affect anything. Anything I try in cmd prompt such as chkdsk or reformatting it doesn't work, neither does disklist. This is a 250gb Toshiba laptop hard drive ~ 3-4 years old. I cant format these, theyre are inaccessible and unrecognized by the system when I try to change its letter and I believe its corrupted any help would be appreciated and if u need any screenshot I can provide.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there ZeroxPalaldin,

In case you have some data over there, you can try accessing it with the Ubuntu Live CD approach. Just boot up Ubuntu from a flash drive or another external drive. Check this out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode
In case you don't really need the data, you can try using some tool for DOS mode that can write zeros on the drive.

Apart from all this, my guess would be that the drive is close to failing. You can check whether this is the case if you simple test it with some HDD testing tool for DOS(as your system can't operate properly when attached).

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[ajms1989]

Try running CHKDSK command and see if that helps in fixing the drive.
Else, ask for replacement after recovering files using tools (considering that's important).

Good luck!!

 

[ZeroxPalaldin]

Hi there ZeroxPalaldin,

In case you have some data over there, you can try accessing it with the Ubuntu Live CD approach. Just boot up Ubuntu from a flash drive or another external drive. Check this out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode
In case you don't really need the data, you can try using some tool for DOS mode that can write zeros on the drive.

Apart from all this, my guess would be that the drive is close to failing. You can check whether this is the case if you simple test it with some HDD testing tool for DOS(as your system can't operate properly when attached).

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

I believe its a dead disk. Hdd testings fail, system shows as disk g but no partition is found 0 bytes and minitool shows it as a bad disk. Ill just replace it since it is indeed a failing disk and my first 🙁