[Kallian]

Originally Posted by Belefuu

Oh man this is hella gay. Cleared the BIOS, same thing.

I did some stupid stuff in fdisk which may have wiped or done something weird to the hd in question (all of this since the last post, so this doesn't concern the original problem). I used the fdisk /x command so that it would allow me to create/delete partitions. After using fdisk on another properly functioning computer with another drive, it seems the no label thing is normal, and basically everything was showing up ok in fdisk before. Anyways, before I did anything to the disk in question, it showed one partition of ~38000MB in fdisk (correct hd size), then said it had ~8000MB free space. Well, not really knowing what I was doing, I deleted that partition, and made a new one. Made it fat32, was the only option that seemed to make since. I skipped the "analyze disk area". Anyways, this ended up giving me a ~8000MB partition, the exact size of the free space. Still can't format it, still says invalid drive, etc etc.

Delete all partitions and create a new primary one.

If that doesn't work, do this:

1) Go to Walmart.
2) Buy baseball bat.
3) You know what to do.
4) newegg.com
5) oh happy day