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From: Mike McFarland	6/20/2011 10:50:25 AM
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I just got a HDD and Win7 disk management sees it, but cannot seem to format it--and then dm loses it. I turn my usb dock off and on and close disk management and restart it, same thing. There it is numbered, it seems to have a small 'rescue' partition and a much larger chunk, but I can't reformat it or even delete the existing partitions. Bad drive? I thought I might clean the connections with acetone, maybe mount it horizontally and use a sata cord inside rather than my dock and see what happens. Maybe I ought to bang on it ha. I suppose I ought to give linux a crack at it--could it be formatted in a way which Win7 cannot read? I'll fiddle with it for an hour, and then I think it may have to go back to whence it came. It is a Western Digital 640gb--refurbished $35, but now I'm going to have to spend $5 to ship the brick back I think.

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