Failed OS installation leading to unusable drive

thebluemelon

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Nov 5, 2016
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Hi, I'm currently building a PC and I've gotten to the OS installation stage. I got as far as windows actually installing (after the creating a new partition in my hard drive bit) however for some reason or another the installation failed.
I've tried to reinstall (I'm using an ISO from a usb) but the drive shows its unallocated space as 0.0mb whereas it was 2tb before.
I've tried using the command prompt to clean the hard drive but it did nothing. Have I ruined the drive or is this a fixable problem?

Specs:
Intel Core i7 4790
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel LGA1150 Z97 ATX Motherboard
Seagate Desktop 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB 6GB/S Internal SATA Drive
HyperX FURY 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3 1866 MHz CL10 DIMM Memory Module Kit
Corsair 850W PSU
Asus Strix GTX 980 ti 6gb
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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don't suppose you have another PC you can put hdd in and see what it shows as in disk management?

You might want to try this and test hdd before continuing: http://blog.nowherelan.com/2013/04/04/boot-seatools-off-of-a-usb-drive/ (Seatools is the testing software from Seagate)

What size does hdd show as in bios?

you could run http://www.dban.org/ on hdd and start again.
 

thebluemelon

Commendable
Nov 5, 2016
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Thanks for trying to help, turned out my HDD was an OEM and tied to another motherboard