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    How to initialize an unknown hdd with all its space unallocated

    First of all i am new to linux but i think i did things properly. I ve tried booting with linux debian but on the partitioning steps i had problems. "fsyncing/closing /dev/sda input/output error" which seems to indicate that the hard drive is dead. So propably this is a waste of time. The only...
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    How to initialize an unknown hdd with all its space unallocated

    I have done chkdsk with /f, /r but nothing usefull showed there so i didn't paste it here. Seeing you saying that about the disk space got me thinking. My current windows recovery partition on the healthy disk is 450mb and i was wondering if this is what we are seeing here.(A recovery partition...
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    How to initialize an unknown hdd with all its space unallocated

    Does the info i provided with ckdsk indicates that the drive is broken? If yes, sorry for wasting everybodys time and please tell me what part exactly states that (because i thought that chcdsk said the disk was fine). I am using this to learn about disk management, and maybe get the disk to...
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    How to initialize an unknown hdd with all its space unallocated

    The HD was locked. I am trying to make it work from a new pc and it is not the only hard drive. I have a working hdd which is the c in the post above and the non working one (the point of the post) which has no letter assigned to it. As i said Aomei scan says the disk is full of bad sectors. I...
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    How to initialize an unknown hdd with all its space unallocated

    os windows 10 A little history, i had win xp on it 10 years ago and i bios locked it. Years passed, i found the hdd and i cant remember the password. So i formatted the hdd with aomei partition assistant(by the way, the hdd is 160gb and it took 5 days to format it with a single pass, fun!)...
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