WD 0730 passport partition write error

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moze
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Joined: 15 Jul 2013, 01:41

WD 0730 passport partition write error

#1 Post by moze »

The disk shows in Devmgmt.msc.
but doesnt show in Diskmgmt.msc.
the disk cannot be formatted.

What i did
>Create
>selected Disk \\. \physical drive1 - 500 GB / 465 GiB
>intel
>analyse
1 read error.png
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>quick search
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>add partition

cylinder 0 Head 1 Sector 1 Cylinder 60800 Head 254 Sector 63 type 07(NTFS)
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>continue
>write

it says
Partition> Write Error

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