new external drive

[Michael]

I really appreciate the help.... It errored out though. Here is what
gparted reported:

*Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sdd*  00:00:37    (
ERROR )

create empty partition  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )




*path: /dev/sdd1start: 2048end: 488396799size: 488394752 (232.88 GiB)*
clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )

write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058108928  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
set partition type on /dev/sdd1  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )

*new partition type: ntfs*
create new ntfs file system  00:00:37    ( ERROR )

*mkntfs -Q -v -L "NexStar" /dev/sdd1*




























*Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.Creating NTFS volume
structures.Creating root directory (mft record 5)Creating $MFT (mft record
0)Creating $MFTMirr (mft record 1)Creating $LogFile (mft record 2)Creating
$AttrDef (mft record 4)Creating $Bitmap (mft record 6)Creating $Boot (mft
record 7)Creating backup boot sector.Creating $Volume (mft record
3)Creating $BadClus (mft record 8)Creating $Secure (mft record 9)Creating
$UpCase (mft record 0xa)Creating $Extend (mft record 11)Creating system
file (mft record 0xc)Creating system file (mft record 0xd)Creating system
file (mft record 0xe)Creating system file (mft record 0xf)Creating $Quota
(mft record 24)Creating $ObjId (mft record 25)Creating $Reparse (mft record
26)Syncing root directory index record.Syncing $Bitmap.Syncing
$MFT.Updating $MFTMirr.Syncing device.*

*Failed to sync device /dev/sdd1: Input/output errorSyncing device. FAILED*

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Get gparted and use it to take a look. Lots of USB drives have some wonky
> trick they use.
>
> On Nov 24, 2016 12:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I got a problem. This new drive won't format. Linux saw it when I first
>> plugged it in. I then tried copying some files to it which resulted in an
>> error appearing after 5-10 minutes telling me to open windows and run
>> 'chkdsk \f' on the device. Then I plugged it into windows10 and couldn't
>> figure out how to open a terminal so I decided to format it. But it
>> wouldn't format. When I attempt to it flashes twice a second for a little
>> then a long flash then again quickly. So I figured I would attempt the
>> format with Linux but Linux doesn't see the drive now so no formatting with
>> it. Can someone help?
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