I have a hard drive from an Acer laptop, which just can't format. When I connect the hard disk to a computer, I get 3 volumes (System Reserved, disk2s3, Acer), which I can't open. Generally, the computer slows down and does not open programs when the hard disk is connected. When I try to format the hard disk using Diskpart, you can't make any entries. Is the hard disk itself broken or can I delete it with a program?
Are you booting from the hard drive or are you really only connecting it to the computer with cables? And why can't she format herself?
It could be obvious what you are planning to do. A hard disk is not a loose-leaf folder. Rather, low and high level formatting and their various systems of bit grouping and directory creation are extremely complex.
Summary: Leave it.
Format from the laptop or not at all.
I connect it with a USB adapter. Under Windows 10, the hard disk does not appear and after some time Windows crashes. With macOS, the process always stops.
Are there problems for the hard disk or the system which formats? The hard drive itself would not bother me, just nice to have some extra memory.
Where are you booting from? If you boot from the disk itself - no-na you can't delete it, operating systems logically have mechanisms not to wipe themselves out.
I suppose it's an old record that you no longer want to use as a boot medium, just as a storage? Then I would burn a Linux (preferably a Debian / Ubuntu, the easiest would probably be Knoppix), which comes standard with the program "Gparted" on a CD / DVD burn (if your device has a drive) and try it. Gparted is pretty much the best tool for managing, deleting, and creating partitions. Wherein pure deletion would actually have to run on another Windows, but who knows.
So 2 things that would come to mind.
If you press the Windows key, you can enter "Computer Management" and then click on "Disk Management"… All disks that are connected to the system will be displayed, even if you do not see them in Windows Explorer. If it is displayed, so the hard drive, you can try as a right click on it to go and format.
If that does not work (under Windows I'm not so sure). If you are familiar with Linux. Man can create a bootable USB stick or a live CD. When booting up, you can set the computer to boot from the CD or the stick. So you do not have to install Linux. With different distributions like Ubuntu there's a program, which is called GParted… With that I got everything formatted so far, insofar as no gross errors were on the hard disk.
Please buy at Media Markt a stick or a hard disk. It will all be a better solution than the laptop thing.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203931en?language=de-de
https://www.easeus.de/partitionieren-tipps/externe-festplatte-auf-fat32-in-windows-10-formatieren.html
I advise against it. It brings bad luck
Would Mint also go via a USB stick?
Nothing against Mint, the problem is that Gparted is not there by default. You can install it in a fixed system, although quite normal (logically) but installing a Linux on a USB stick as on a hard drive is much more complicated than just a live system (read only, you do not need more for your scenario actually ) on the disk to push (that is completely under Windows). So, download that first (4.4GB is hopefully not too big):
https://www.heise.de/...ppix-35154
(to download - Download)
Then download this:
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
Once both downloads are done, close an empty USB flash drive / SD card of at least 8GB to the PC (USB 3 is better) and start the Universal USB installer. Then select Knoppix in the menu and select the Knoppix ISO in the opening file manager. Then confirm and, well, wait a while. When done, select okay, close the program and eject the stick. Then shut down the system.
Know BEFORE how to boot from USB on your PC (maybe you need to turn off Secure Boot on Windows 10) and boot from the stick now.
Alternative: As I said, ISO burn to a DVD, then boot from there. But are both variants at the end of the day easy.
You will be greeted by a LXDE desktop. At the bottom left of the menu under the two million programs must be somewhere Gparted. Just start and manage your partitions to your heart's content. The program is actually quite logical, but otherwise you can look at a guide online. Oh yes, choose NTFS as the file format, which is standard for hard disks under Windows.
Oh yes, and of course the hard drive you want to format must also be connected. And be careful not to erase the wrong hard drive. And then you can format the stick again under Windows. Keeping it simple on a DVD is always useful to have such a thing, such as a virus or other emergencies.
