Hard drive problems formatting

[alohascott]

I have a hard drive that i am trying to determine if it is usable or not.
if at all possible i would really prefer to get this drive working as a comparable drive in this market is very expensive.

at first i was having difficulty formatting it and was getting and error.
i did manage to get it formatted using a quick format first and a long format after that and there were no errors.
after that i did a windows scan for errors including bad sectors and it did not find any.

i am using hd tune and it is giving me two warnings on this drive.

spin retry count 100 100 97 1 warning
and
ultra dma crc error count
200 200 0 535 warning

the columns are in order
current
worst
threshold
data
status.

the drive is a seagate baracuda 7200.11 500gb

 

[ringzero]

So are you having actual problems with it now that it's formatted, or are you just concerned about the warnings?

 

[alohascott]

concerned about the warnings and also the fact that it would not format in the first place. i am running a virtual machine on it to test it out and its running fine.

 

[alohascott]

anyone have any info on these two warnings?

 

[peltans]

how can i format my flash drive

 

[alohascott]

right click on it and choose format

 

[alohascott]

Best answer selected by alohascott.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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