Question Windows 10 "The format could not complete successfully"

[ethan.crabtree45648]

So i did a fresh install of windows 10 and everything seemed normal except for this. When i went to format my secondary drive i got this error. My os and main drives are just fine from what i can tell and my main formated like normal. I also tried used the diskpart command to set it up and that didnt work either.

Is this a sign my drive is going bad? The drive in question is a 2tb hhd, my main drive is a 1tb hhd and my os drive is a 250gb ssd.

 

[USAFRet]

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is this a sign my drive is going bad? The drive in question is a 2tb hhd,

Probably.
Please show screenshot from HDtune - health section.
https://www.hdtune.com/download.html
(free version HDtune 2.55)
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

https://imgur.com/a/F9ONuuL

View: https://imgur.com/a/F9ONuuL

 

[zinkles]

What file system did you use when formatting it?
What options did you select when formatting it? (quick format, etc)

 

[SkyNetRising]

https://imgur.com/a/F9ONuuL

View: https://imgur.com/a/F9ONuuL

Do not use drive letter B: . It is reserved for floppy drives.
Use quick format.
Show screenshot from HDtune health section.

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

What file system did you use when formatting it?
What options did you select when formatting it? (quick format, etc)

Simple volume, full drive size, NTFS

 

[USAFRet]

1. Why are you formatting it?

2. Change the drive letter from B, to something else. Windows treats the A and B drive letters differently than all the others.

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

1. Why are you formatting it?

2. Change the drive letter from B, to something else. Windows treats the A and B drive letters differently than all the others.

Im doing a fresh install of windows

Ill try this and see if it works

 

[zinkles]

Open up an elevated (administrator) CMD window and try these diskpart commands one after the other;

1. diskpart
2. sel disk <disk number>
3. sel vol <volume number>
4. format fs=ntfs quick
5. exit

Make sure to select the correct disk and volume numbers in commands 2 & 3

If it gives out an error during command execution, stop, and don't proceed with further commands.

EDIT: you might want to run list disk command before executing command 2, and run list vol before executing command 4, to get to know which drive corresponds to what disk number.

 

[USAFRet]

Im doing a fresh install of windows

Ill try this and see if it works

There appears to be nothing on the 2TB labeled B.

Formatting that would seem to be not needed.

 

[SkyNetRising]

There appears to be nothing on the 2TB labeled B.
Formatting that would seem to be not needed.

File system is RAW.
It absolutely needs formatting.

 

[USAFRet]

File system is RAW.
It absolutely needs formatting.

Ah, yes.
Didn't notice that.

My bad.
Ignore my above.

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

There appears to be nothing on the 2TB labeled B.

Formatting that would seem to be not needed.

When i try to make a new volume it wont work even when it is unallocated

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

I downloaded crystal disk info and this is the status on my drive? Is it safe to say it is dying?

https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG

View: https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

File system is RAW.
It absolutely needs formatting.

It says that each time after making a new volume fails

 

[SkyNetRising]

I downloaded crystal disk info and this is the status on my drive? Is it safe to say it is dying?

It's failing.
153 relocated sectors and 4783! pending sectors.

Replace.

 

[zinkles]

Uh oh.. some bad sectors... meaning, the drive is indeed bad.

Don't put any sort of data on it unless you want it gone.

Good thing, being unable to format it actually acted as a warning in disguise. You could have lost your data if you were to have put it on there. It might fail anytime.

Before that, check the drives health using Seagate's' software > https://www.seagate.com/in/en/support/downloads/seatools/ and see if it gives the same warning messages.