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**Baldie559** · 01-08-2007, 08:29 PM

I have an external hard drive that I'm trying to format but I keep getting a "cable read error:diagnostic sector error". I'm using the Western Digital Diagnostic tool as well. Any ideas?? The HD shows up in My Computer but cannot access it.

01-08-2007, 08:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Baldie559 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: California Posts: 654 OS: Xp and Vista	Hard Drive Issue I have an external hard drive that I'm trying to format but I keep getting a "cable read error:diagnostic sector error". I'm using the Western Digital Diagnostic tool as well. Any ideas?? The HD shows up in My Computer but cannot access it.