Windows 10: HDD not working?

Discus and support HDD not working? in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; First off, very sorry if this is the wrong board, I'm new. I have a 160GB HDD that I am trying to install on my mother's computer, with windows 7 on... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by St4tch, Apr 5, 2016.

  1. St4tch Win User

    HDD not working?


    First off, very sorry if this is the wrong board, I'm new.

    I have a 160GB HDD that I am trying to install on my mother's computer, with windows 7 on it. However, upon booting, it gets caught and loops the boot. So I put it in my PC and tried to fix it.
    So I go into Disk Management and then I see this:
    HDD not working? [​IMG]


    Cant do anything there, cant Initialize it.

    So I go into MiniTool Partition Wizard and then this:

    HDD not working? [​IMG]


    It says bad disk and Read-only. Is it dead? I dont care about the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again.

    :)
     
    St4tch, Apr 5, 2016
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  2. HDD in a HDD caddy is not showing up in the disk management

    Hello,

    Thank you for updating on the status.

    Glad to know that the issue is solved. We appreciate your time and patience in sharing the information. This might help other Community users who are facing the same issue.

    Feel free to write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we'll be glad to assist you.
     
    Eeshwar Kumar, Apr 5, 2016
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  3. HDD in a HDD caddy is not showing up in the disk management

    Caddy is connected to SATA so I updated IDE, ATA and ATAPI-drivers and it started to work!

    Thanks for the tip!

    -Aapo
     
    AapoOinonen, Apr 5, 2016
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  4. Berton Win User

    HDD not working?

    When I run into one of those I connect to a computer, boot to a GPARTED CD and check if there's partitions present and/or delete all partitions. Then depending upon what it will be used for I proceed to either create a partition and format or simply put back in the destination computer and install an OS which should partition and format it as part of the install process.
     
    Berton, Apr 5, 2016
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  5. St4tch Win User
    Thank you for your response.
    What do you mean by GPARTED CD? I dont have a cd drive so unless its able to boot via USB I dont know if I can do it.

    Is there any other program I can use?
     
    St4tch, Apr 5, 2016
    #5
  6. RolandJS Win User
    MiniTool Power Data Recovery, free or pay-for, includes a partition fixer/manager -- and one can copy the portable program onto a USB boot stick.
     
    RolandJS, Apr 5, 2016
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  7. RolandJS Win User
    RolandJS, Apr 5, 2018
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