Windows was unable to complete the format

[a_monkie]

I am unable to complete a format. The disk amount is properly detected, but all attempts to format have been thwarted. This is disk 1 not disk 0, so it is not the boot drive. Drive used to be a SteamOS boot drive but it was acting up so i wanted to format it and use it as additional game storage for my win8 machine.

 

[xcrossroadsx]

I would first try this:
open up an administrator command prompt
enter "diskpart"
enter "lis dis"
enter "sel dis x" where x is the number of the dis that the HDD appears as in the previous command
enter "clean"
enter "create partition primary"
enter "format quick fs=ntfs label="Storage" "
enter "assign letter x" where x is whatever drive letter you want it as

 

[a_monkie]

this is the output for lis dis: http://i.imgur.com/bIGNSgI.jpg

 

[xcrossroadsx]

you need a space between lis and dis

 

[a_monkie]

when i do this, it only shows disk 0, which is my healthy drive. the disl 1, the problem causer, doesnt appear here, but it does appaear in my file manager and disk managment.

 

[xcrossroadsx]

If it appears in either of those, then it should definitely appear in diskpart.