External /Sata Hard Drive Format Issue

[wclement7]

Hello,

I recently had a hard drive failure on my external lacie hdd. I have been trying many things to get data off it but have since gave up.

Now I am trying to re-format it and use it again, but it will not format to the full capacity.

It is a 1TB samsung hdd. When I format it with my mac or windows it shows 33mb. I also tried using the xp install cd and formatted it at the install utility with no change either.

Any ideas on what is wrong here?

Thanks for the help!

 

[psxguru]

How many partitions are on it?

 

[wclement7]

There was only one. HFS format.

 

[psxguru]

There must be loads of bad sectors marked on that drive. It sounds like it's time for a new drive!