I have a drive which has no bad sectors, and when I control panel/computer management/disk management (in Windows 7) it reports as not initialized.
When I attempt to initialize, it says that the device in not ready.
Bin it?
Update: teh disk was fine, running Ubuntu, until I dcied to install Windows 7, which needed an NTFS partition. I created one using GpartEd but W7 dropped out - propnlem with teh install media an dperhaps the disk is about to die ... since then, Gparted can't even see the disk... (nor W7 on another machine when I connect it externally, not a live Linux CD)