Timeline for hard drive broken?
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 14:33 | vote | accept | Jane Watson | ||
| Sep 28, 2011 at 14:33 | comment | added | Jane Watson | I booted to Windows and downloaded the Western Digital drive check program and it did not detect it. So, I think it is safe to say the drive is broken. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 14:09 | comment | added | CarlF | You might check whether Western Digital has a low-level diagnostic program for this drive, but you're right, it seems as if the drive is toast. Luckily a replacement will cost you $50 for twice the capacity. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | Jane Watson | The quoted command returns the same exact output as mentioned in my question. At this point, the data is not important and I just want to reformat the disk but apparently I cannot manage either. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:19 | history | answered | CarlF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |