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I have been given a 2nd hand 3TB Western digital hard drive today.
I installed into my pc (windows 10), when I go into disk management it asks me to initialise the disk, so I chose GPT but I get an error saying the drive cannot be converted because the size is less than the minimum size required and I just get a bad function error when trying to initialise with MBR.
ive ran disk part to clean the drive and that says successful but it won't convert to GPT through disk part either.
in the BIOS it shows as 0kb in size and in disk management the allocated/unallocated box is completely blank with the left window showing "unknown drive" not initialised
I have AOMEI partition manager, that shows it as -7531.00KB and if I try to create a partition or format I get an error saying to many bad clusters.
so before I bin it, is this drive fooked or am I missing something?
I installed into my pc (windows 10), when I go into disk management it asks me to initialise the disk, so I chose GPT but I get an error saying the drive cannot be converted because the size is less than the minimum size required and I just get a bad function error when trying to initialise with MBR.
ive ran disk part to clean the drive and that says successful but it won't convert to GPT through disk part either.
in the BIOS it shows as 0kb in size and in disk management the allocated/unallocated box is completely blank with the left window showing "unknown drive" not initialised
I have AOMEI partition manager, that shows it as -7531.00KB and if I try to create a partition or format I get an error saying to many bad clusters.
so before I bin it, is this drive fooked or am I missing something?