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Did I just ruin my external hard drive? 2016-12-20 01:39:59 Post No. 58084634
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Did I just ruin my external hard drive? 2016-12-20 01:39:59 Post No. 58084634
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I was doing some housekeeping and decided to wipe my Western Digital 500 GB external hard drive using CCleaner's drive wipe utility. Since I had all of the files backed up on another drive, I selected the "Entire Drive" wipe.
Everything seemed to go OK while the drive was being wiped, but now my computer is no longer recognizing the drive. I tried my laptop as well but no luck there either.
Is there a way to fix this or should I just toss the thing out?
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Install gentoo on it. Should work fine
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Initialize Drive on diskmgmt.msc. it will help you to recover recognition of your drive.
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>>58084634
this >>58084671
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Assuming you're running Windows, open Disk Management, find the drive which you formatted, and reformat the hard drive in your preferred file system (NTFS).
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>>58084671
Is something supposed to be showing up other than my main hard drive and my CD-ROM drive?
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>>58084916
It doesn't even recognize anything as being plugged in.
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Lightweight Linux (preferrably not with apt-get) onto USB, download some ntfs tools, format a little bit of it for ntfs. I guess. Linux is used for this kinda shit, typically. I've had to do it a few times myself.
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>>58084996
You should be seeing something like this, but there should be a drive that has a black bar on it, instead of a blue one like in pic related.
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Well, the drive just randomly unfucked itself. Not sure what happened. Thanks guys.
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