Question Is my HDD corrupt or something?

[BenSeason]

Alright, so i built a new system some months ago. And my 1TB SSD has filled up and i want to move things i dont need on a ssd to an used 4TB HDD i had in my old PC. The problem is that when i first tried it my pc didnt get past booting (sat and loaded) and it kept being that way for a day. But i recently discovered that if i plug the connection to the motherboard while running, then turning off and on again it goes into windows. Keep in mind this is probably 50% filled up with <Mod Edit> from my last build since i didnt wipe it. But when i tried to wipe it (Formatting, CCleaner etc) it doesnt work. It just comes up with a error message saying something that something didnt exist. And after i try, it doesnt come up in file explorer. I have to manually shut it off and on again, i cant press restart for some reason. Btw and i also didnt have space for the bracket since i have an ATX case, but a tiny one so its just laying in the bottom. I am 99.9% sure this doesnt have windows installed on it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Boot from windows installation media into command prompt and clean your hdd (if there's no data you want to recover).

 

[BenSeason]

Boot from windows installation media into command prompt and clean your hdd (if there's no data you want to recover).

Can i just boot the pc, go into cmd and do this?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can i just boot the pc, go into cmd and do this?

Since you can't boot into windows with hdd connected, then no.

 

[BenSeason]

Since you can't boot into windows with hdd connected, then no.

Alright i did it, it says succeeded in cleaning the disk, and i did list disk again and everything is free. There is a star (*) in front of disk 2 (hdd) but it still does not show up in File Manager

 

[SkyNetRising]

it still does not show up in File Manager

You have to create a partition and format it first.
Use Disk Management.

 

[BenSeason]

You have to create a partition and format it first.
Use Disk Management.

Thank you again for a reply, i did and it stood at ''Formatting'' a while. Now its not in disk management

 

[dudujogador9]

Thank you again for a reply, i did and it stood at ''Formatting'' a while. Now its not in disk management

 

[SkyNetRising]

i did and it stood at ''Formatting'' a while. Now its not in disk management

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[BenSeason]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Its pretty straight forward, i try to format any size (100mb,100gb, the whole thing) and it just disappears after a while, and i have to restart the pc for it to get back. My HDD is under ''RAW''

 

[SkyNetRising]

Just show the screenshot. Do you have any problems with doing that?