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Message generalluke Post subject: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:47 Joined: May 2nd, 2008, 1:40Posts: 1 Hi guys some help please?I have a problem with this drive. I cannot how to fix i/o device error usb drive write to it so I deleted the aprtition and tried to format, both long and short formats
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do not work, they come back with an error saying unable to format at the end of the process.I tried the hard disk wipe tool diskpart clean i/o device error and as it starts, it says "write error occured at offset"Any ideas please?ThanksGeneral Attachments: hard drive.jpg [ 249.33 KiB | Viewed 2273 times ] Top qbandit Post subject: Re: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: May 13th, 2008, 1:20 diskpart has encountered an error data error (cyclic redundancy check) Joined: May 13th, 2008, 0:02Posts: 5 Try some software for managing partitions. Not with the OS tool. Top rchadwick Post subject: Re: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: May 13th, 2008, 2:10 Joined: December 23rd, 2006, 16:08Posts: 938Location: NJ Try running MHDD. What are the results? Top LaoziSailor Post subject: Re: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: September 22nd, 2008, 18:20 Joined: September 10th, 2008, 16:21Posts: 11 generalluke wrote:Hi guys some help please?I have a problem with
Diskpart Has Encountered An Error The Media Is Write Protected
this drive. I cannot write to it so I deleted the aprtition and tried to format, both long and short formats do not work, they come back with an error saying unable to format at the end of the process.I tried the hard disk wipe tool and as it starts, it says "write error occured at offset"Any ideas please?ThanksGeneralI have exactly the same situation, my drive is 500GB, the program has been running for almost three (3) weeks now on my laptop and I just hope it'll finish despite the error messages. I'm almost at 50% now, not using the laptop so what the heck. Top hddguy Post subject: Re: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: October 8th, 2008, 9:47 Joined: November 9th, 2006, 15:15Posts: 2916 LaoziSailor wrote:I have exactly the same situation, my drive is 500GB, the program has been running for almost three (3) weeks now on my laptop and I just hope it'll finish despite the error messages. I'm almost at 50% now, not using the laptop so what the heck.If you are trying to wipe the disk, then obviously data is not important, and if the disk takes this long to write 00, would you really want to store potentially valuable data on it? Top shahij Post subject: Re: Some help with Western Digital 250gPosted: October 8th, 2008, 12:50 Joined: March 11th, 2008, 4:35Posts: 929Location: Bangladesh slow sectors i guess ___________________________There is no substitute for education and experienceTHANK YOUSHAH
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