New HDD won't show

[Dario_92]

Hello people, I bought a new hard drive a few weeks back and that's me just getting round to installing it. Now, everything is all plugged in correctly and once I get into windows and right click on Computer to format it and use it the Initialize Disk pops up, I click OK so i can initialize the disk and then an error comes up saying "No such interface supported". Once I click OK and try right clicking on the drive in the Disk Management everything is greyed out apart from properties and help. I am running Windows 8 pro 64bit.

Dario.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Run CMD as admin
diskpart-listdisk-selectdisk-format fs=ntfs-create partition primary-assign.
(I'm not sure that these are the exact commands haven't done a format through CMD for a long long time)

 

[Dario_92]

Run CMD as admin
diskpart-listdisk-selectdisk-format fs=ntfs-create partition primary-assign.
(I'm not sure that these are the exact commands haven't done a format through CMD for a long long time)

Will this format all my HDD's or do I select a certain HDD ??

Thanks.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Have you tried the "Scan for hardware changes" option in device manager? The drive may appear in Disk Management, but I've found in the past that scanning for hardware changes before doing anything with a new hard drive ensures a fairly seamless operation.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Just go into disk management and initialize the drive and format it.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Just go into disk management and initialize the drive and format it.

He's already tried that...

 

[Dario_92]

Have you tried the "Scan for hardware changes" option in device manager? The drive may appear in Disk Management, but I've found in the past that scanning for hardware changes before doing anything with a new hard drive ensures a fairly seamless operation.

Just tried that there mate, still no luck im afraid

 

[yassarikhan786]

Try what Thelosouvlaki has suggested (I've provided more details):

Run the command line as admin and type the below in the following order:

1. diskpart
2. list disk (this will show all the connected disks listed as disk 0, disk 1, etc.)
3. Determine which disk you need to format and use select disk to select it e.g. If you want to format disk 0 type: select disk 0
4. format fs=ntfs

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Is the disk showing up in the BIOS?

 

[Dario_92]

Try what Thelosouvlaki has suggested (I've provided more details):

Run the command line as admin and type the below in the following order:

1. diskpart
2. list disk (this will show all the connected disks listed as disk 0, disk 1, etc.)
3. Determine which disk you need to format and use select disk to select it e.g. If you want to format disk 0 type: select disk 0
4. format fs=ntfs

I tried this but it did not work, after i select disk 2 and type in fs=ntfs it comes up with a list of everything and whatever i type into CMD it comes up with "There is no volume specified. Please select a volume and try again.

Is the disk showing up in the BIOS?

Yeah it shoes in BIOS

 

[yassarikhan786]

Try the suggestion in this link. I think it's more appropriate to your situation:

http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine...Diskpart-to-Create-and-Format-Partitions.aspx

The commands are below in case the link stops working in the future:

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert mbr (or gpt)
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active (if this is the boot partition)
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs label=(name) quick
DISKPART> assign letter (letter)
DISKPART> list volume

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Do you have PartedMagic? Can you format it from there?

 

[Dario_92]

Try the suggestion in this link. I think it's more appropriate to your situation:

http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine...Diskpart-to-Create-and-Format-Partitions.aspx

The commands are below in case the link stops working in the future:

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert mbr (or gpt)
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active (if this is the boot partition)
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs label=(name) quick
DISKPART> assign letter (letter)
DISKPART> list volume

I only get to "select part 1" and this happens http://gyazo.com/b64fa299e6c25e7a422722f52dea66ac

Do you have PartedMagic? Can you format it from there?

No I don't have this program mate

 

[BigDaddyKong]

PM sent, let me know if it works.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I only get to "select part 1" and this happens http://gyazo.com/b64fa299e6c25e7a422722f52dea66ac

You could try a third party application like the one Kong has suggested.

PM sent, let me know if it works.

You should post it in the thread so it can help others.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...12&authkey=!ANg3LBVO2F-8eJY&ithint=folder,mds

There is the ISO from my One drive. This version was free ware when I downloaded it. I think with the latest update, they started charging for it. MODS, if this is against forum rules, please delete it.