“You need to format your disk before you can use it” when hard disk is plugged in

Question

When I plug in my hard disk it says, "you need to format your disk before you can use it" but when I click format, it says "Windows could not finish the format" that means my hard disk spoil? I can't use my hard disk anymore?

Any solution to solve it so I could use the disk again?

Answer 1

Have you tried running check disk on the hard drive? scan it for errors and attempt to fix bad sectors - im assuming its a removable external hard drive. Run check disk , if all else shows up then have a look in Disk managment to see if the drive is being picked up (you can give it a drive letter here) and then try running a format through that.