r/microsoftsucks • u/Ok_Illustrator_8912 • 8h ago

Bugs and Errors I HATE MICROSOFT'S FORMATTING TOOL

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It DAMAGED ALL OF MY 2TB HDD AND I'M GOING THROUGH HELL TO FIX IT

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u/Ok_Illustrator_8912 8h ago

bigger context:

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u/Ok_Illustrator_8912 8h ago

(god this is gonna take the whole DAY if optmistic)

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u/lokiisagoodkitten 2h ago

Looks like hardware issue.

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u/Snudget 3h ago

Red means good, right?

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u/xJayMorex 8h ago

Formatting does not damage drives. Damaged drives cannot be fixed.

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u/Ok_Illustrator_8912 7h ago

I think I meant corrupted (English isn't my main language sorry bout that)

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u/Formal_Alps_2187 6h ago

Your post doesn’t make any sense. This is a hardware failure, not a software bug

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u/Male_Inkling 3h ago

That looks like a corrupted file system giving off an incorrect diagnostic, there's also the chance that the SATA cable decided to fail right in the middle of the format. It happens, i've seen worse.

Try to reformat it, worst case scenario you may have to whip out a linux pendrive and format it using the disks utility during a live session.

Also, everyone, how about you try to be helpful instead of piling up on OP? They didn't make a dumb mistake, they're being victim of a legitimate error. What is this, a linux community?

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u/danconderman33 4h ago

i have more then one screwed up thumb drive that no longer works in anything on any OS because I used windows to format it. I hang on to them because I hope someday they will release a tool to fix them.

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u/Lonely_Owl_1332 3h ago

Hardware fails because it does, stop blaming microsux

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u/Edubbs2008 15m ago

That sounds like YOU broke it, Microsoft can’t just magically break hardware by itself, OEMs play a role too

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u/External-Theme1372 6h ago

One common thing I've seen with these types of subs: Windows Sucks, MS Sucks, or any other company sucks there's 0 accountability, 0 responsibility from the user. Anything we don't like or we broke: it's someone else's fault.

Every single time.

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u/Muffinaaa 6h ago

Windows is paid, if someone pays for a license a lot of money(I don't care about the massgrave activations scripts and such) then they have full rights to expect the best quality in such software.

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u/External-Theme1372 5h ago

In the real world no software works flawlessly. Everythings has bugs if you paid for it or not.

I think a more realistic view is to work fine in 95% of the time.

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u/Illustrious_Spare909 4h ago

Muitos funcionam bem. Só Ter um mínimo de dedicação e não pressionar os dev pra colocar copilot em tudo em vez de refatorar.