Change MBR on HDD to...

[The.King]

They're both Seagate 2TB sata drives.

 

[setishock]

Go to the Seagate website with the model and get the diagnostic tools. Do a low level format. That will write all 0's to the drive. then try it out.
Some times the low level format is referred to as recertifying.

 

[The.King]

Thanks, but as per earlier post - that's what I'm doing. I'm in the middle of a 5hr random 0/1 format. I'll see what happens then. Just thought someone here would know of a quicker way to change an MBR to uninitialized.

 

[Joe C]

shouldn't take 5 hrs to low level format a 2 tb drive, maybe 2 hrs.
What are the pc specs are you using to LLF this drive on?
The Speco system I worked on last year had a max capacity of 1tb. So I got a Western Digital 1 tb purple drive, it had a 500 gb WD green drive and it had a short life (2 yrs) . Haven't heard anything so the purple drive must still be working.

What is the Model Number and Brand Name of this system ????

 

[The.King]

I'm not LLF'ing it. I did that earlier before the OP and it changed nothing. I'm running a random pass 0/1 format on it and for 2TB, 5hrs is pretty efficient.

If you've worked with active killdisk before, you'll know how thorough it is, especially at random passes.

 

[pchelper]

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