I have a 250g Western Digital internal HARD drive (L:/) which is only used for a GENEALOGY program. After having a "could not open" problem with the genealogy program, I decided to reformat this same internal hard drive. A few minutes into the disk reformatting our electrical power failed and there was no back up power supply.

The hard drive still appears under "My Computer" and asks me if I want to reformat the drive. I click "yes" and it starts FORMATTING but never finishes.

I'm running Vista Premium and a Western Digital Internal SATA Hard Drive.

Any help fixing the problem will be GREATLY appreciated.

[Saving space - attachment deleted by admin]Try running the Data Lifeguard Tools ( Free ) from WD's website and SEE if they will complete....
Choose remove all partitions and then re-create them.
NOTE: It needs to be formatted after you create the new partition/sThanks Patio. I forgot that I had a CD from Western Digital that came with the drive. I put that little guy in and it cleaned up the mess in less than 2 minutes. It did rename the L:/ Drive to DRV3_VOL 1 (L:) but it works. Thanks again for your help! Good News !