A friend sent me down his HP Pavilion Dm1 as he couldn't boot... It was quickly traced to an HDD problem.
Took it out, plugged it into my Mac, tried to format it, wouldn't work. It then wouldn't mount, and I had to use the 'Initialize...' option, now, it'll come up in Disk Utility with greyed out partitions 'dsk001' or something.
It's a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue drive, 2.5" ofc. It's a nice drive, which is currently un-useable.
There's no clicking, or strange noises and the drive seems to be 'vibrating/spinning' well with a normal temperature and low-noise level.
Can't do much or Disk Utility freezes up or fails to mount/unmount during formatting.
It's stuck in the MS-FAT32 format.
Anyone able to make a suggestion?
I know the drive could be dead, but this is worth a shot.
Thanks guys!!
Took it out, plugged it into my Mac, tried to format it, wouldn't work. It then wouldn't mount, and I had to use the 'Initialize...' option, now, it'll come up in Disk Utility with greyed out partitions 'dsk001' or something.
It's a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue drive, 2.5" ofc. It's a nice drive, which is currently un-useable.
There's no clicking, or strange noises and the drive seems to be 'vibrating/spinning' well with a normal temperature and low-noise level.
Can't do much or Disk Utility freezes up or fails to mount/unmount during formatting.
It's stuck in the MS-FAT32 format.
Anyone able to make a suggestion?
I know the drive could be dead, but this is worth a shot.
Thanks guys!!