Power went out while formatting HDD - can't do anything to it without error.

[IHazABone]

Hi,

I was just formatting an old 80gb laptop HDD when the power happened to go out in the area. My PC, of course, immediately lost power. Upon restarting and trying to view the drive or format it again, I'm met with "Access is denied" and "You do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation. ", respectively. Where the available space should be, it just says NTFS.

I'm running Windows 8.

And another thing - as I was on my computer most of the time working while it formatted the drive, I noticed incredibly slow progress. I was doing a full format, so I expected it to be slower, but 6 hours in it wasn't even a quarter of the way (when the power went out). Is that normal?

 

[rgd1101]

time to get a new one.

 

[IHazABone]

time to get a new one.

Hm. It appears that this isn't always fatal. Sure there isn't anything I could do?

 

[terry4536]

I would start over with deleting the partition. Then repartition and format the the hard drive.


http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/partition-and-format-a-disk-in-windows/

 

[IHazABone]

I would start over with deleting the partition. Then repartition and format the the hard drive.


http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/partition-and-format-a-disk-in-windows/

I've formatted twice after reverting the partitions to basically nothing (a quick and then a full which went faster this time). Trying to install Linux Mint 15, I'm getting errors of all kinds (but all different) related to the HDD. From that, it would seem it's busted. But all the HDD validation and checking and repairing and anything else I can do tells me it's perfectly fine. I'm kinda stumped. It's probably screwed.

 

[IHazABone]

Argh, it double posted. Sorry. If a mod happens to come by this, you can delete it.