Running Windows 7 Pro on a desktop and had to replace an internal SATA storage drive that was failing. The new WD 2 TB HD has failed to format into NTFS after multiple attempts. Yes I am logged in as Administrator.
The drive is listed as healthy and under disk properties it will populate a volume screen after the disk fails to format as NTFS and appears as RAW rather than NTFS
My system HD layout:
C: (Disk 0) OS and programs only
E: (Disk 1) the one I am replacing) Documents, music and some video media
K: (Disk2) Pictures
All HD are connected SATA and have been NTSF for a while so I know BIOS should be set up right and have been running this layout for over a year now since adding the third (K) drive for my photography. The two storage drives were initially installed when I was still running XP however I did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro 64 a year later or so and encountered no issues with the drives being recognized.
1) After each failed attempt (quick format and the long one) the drive changes from "unallocated" to "RAW".
2) I have uninstalled and deleted the HD in Hardware Manage several times and re-attempted to format both with and without restarting the computer afterwards with no success
3) Each time I uninstall or delete the new HD in Hardware Manager the drive disappears from both Hardware Manager and Storage menu under Administrative Tools until I re-scan the HD. At this point it is again listed as unallocated status as described in 1 above.
4) Although I was able to get "initial drive" to show up once after an uninstall the drive still failed to format and I haven't been able to get "initialize drive" to show up in the menu again - not even grayed out.
5) Ran through several suggested solutions from online search related to the problem including diskpart menu options in elevated command prompt with no success but some commands only seem to return a menu of options. I can get DISKPART, SELECT DISK and LIST DISK to produce expected results however CLEAN DISK and FORMAT=NTFS only return to the menu of commands.
*On my first attempt to format the drive I didn't know or had forgotten exactly how to do it and did not choose initial drive first...not sure if that could be a cause for my problem or not. I was able to get the initialize drive and select it from the menu once after uninstlling the drive but it still failed to format to NTFS as described above.
One other thing I noticed is that I am running 64 bit OS and cmd.exe etc always show up as 32 bit...I have very limited experience using command prompts. Not sure if I was not entering the other command prompts exactly right or if I should be seeing a 64 bit cmd.exe instead?
I have multiple screen shots of attempts and results I will upload to my G drive if you think something will help but am heading out of town till late Saturday night and won't have access to my desktop PC.
The drive is listed as healthy and under disk properties it will populate a volume screen after the disk fails to format as NTFS and appears as RAW rather than NTFS
My system HD layout:
C: (Disk 0) OS and programs only
E: (Disk 1) the one I am replacing) Documents, music and some video media
K: (Disk2) Pictures
All HD are connected SATA and have been NTSF for a while so I know BIOS should be set up right and have been running this layout for over a year now since adding the third (K) drive for my photography. The two storage drives were initially installed when I was still running XP however I did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro 64 a year later or so and encountered no issues with the drives being recognized.
1) After each failed attempt (quick format and the long one) the drive changes from "unallocated" to "RAW".
2) I have uninstalled and deleted the HD in Hardware Manage several times and re-attempted to format both with and without restarting the computer afterwards with no success
3) Each time I uninstall or delete the new HD in Hardware Manager the drive disappears from both Hardware Manager and Storage menu under Administrative Tools until I re-scan the HD. At this point it is again listed as unallocated status as described in 1 above.
4) Although I was able to get "initial drive" to show up once after an uninstall the drive still failed to format and I haven't been able to get "initialize drive" to show up in the menu again - not even grayed out.
5) Ran through several suggested solutions from online search related to the problem including diskpart menu options in elevated command prompt with no success but some commands only seem to return a menu of options. I can get DISKPART, SELECT DISK and LIST DISK to produce expected results however CLEAN DISK and FORMAT=NTFS only return to the menu of commands.
*On my first attempt to format the drive I didn't know or had forgotten exactly how to do it and did not choose initial drive first...not sure if that could be a cause for my problem or not. I was able to get the initialize drive and select it from the menu once after uninstlling the drive but it still failed to format to NTFS as described above.
One other thing I noticed is that I am running 64 bit OS and cmd.exe etc always show up as 32 bit...I have very limited experience using command prompts. Not sure if I was not entering the other command prompts exactly right or if I should be seeing a 64 bit cmd.exe instead?
I have multiple screen shots of attempts and results I will upload to my G drive if you think something will help but am heading out of town till late Saturday night and won't have access to my desktop PC.
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