uninitialized drive

  1. Windows 8 External hard drive broken, help please!

    So my WD 'My Passport' (1Tb) died on me about 4 days due to a 'data cyclic redundancy error' or something along those lines. So I ran chkdsk, and just a few hours ago... My power tripped(of course). Now, I can't even detect the drive to run chkdsk on it as it says "cannot open volume for direct...
    • SacredVolt
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    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  2. Windows 7 Erasing A Drive

    The drive in my HTPC failed and I'm going to RMA it. Nothing unusual about that, but with this one I can't find a way to access it for data erasure prior to shipping, and that bothers me. The system partition doesn't contain anything too sensitive...that I remember, but it does have additional...
    • seekermeister
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    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Hardware