HD not recognized after attemt to format

[luby]

Hello,
I started formatting my HD from within Xp. Since nothing was happening for some time I canceled it. Now I cannot access the drive. It does not show in BIOS although the test diagnostic for the HD runs on it and finishes successfully. What to do, please? Thank you.

 

[rezervesizeja]

You have to think of a way to format it again. It's not good to cancel formatting. Try Hirens boot cd, there should be a tool for HDD recovery.

 

[An55]

You'd better not cancel a half running process. To format it, you can try this tool:
http://download.chip.eu/en/USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool_176935.html

 

[luby]

Thank you, Guys,

There was not a bar showing, so I thought - after 20 min. that I waited, it must have frozen or something. Nevertheless, it is fixed now. Trying to run the original Win XP CD - it was saying "No disk ..." Turned out, I had to disable the SATA controller in BIOS. Then XP cd recognized the drive and formatted it, etc.