Formatting a MAC hard drive for Windows

[jmcelvoy]

I had a iMac that I recently parted out and it had a 2TB hard drive in it. I'm trying to get the HD formatted and usable for Windows but not having any luck. It shows up in Disk Management as Disk 1/Unknown/Not Initialized. When I Initialize as GPT it throws an error of The system cannot find the file specified. When I try to Initialize as MBR it immediately throws and error of Data error (cyclic redundancy check). I've googled around and tried DiskPart and Chkdsk and nothing is working. Is this drive dead or is there something different I need to do to get it formatted and working in Windows?

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello jmcelvoy, the symptoms you describe seem that the HDD is faulty due to not been able to do check disk and having cyclic redundancy errors. See if you can run Seatools on that drive to check on its health. It does not need to be a Seagate for Seatools to work.

 

[jmcelvoy]

Hello jmcelvoy, the symptoms you describe seem that the HDD is faulty due to not been able to do check disk and having cyclic redundancy errors. See if you can run Seatools on that drive to check on its health. It does not need to be a Seagate for Seatools to work.

ShortDST Passes, but all other scans fail.

 

[seagate_surfer]

jmcelvoy, if those are the results, then the drive needs replacing. You can contact support here and warranty here. Best of luck and sorry about this.