Yesterday I used a DOS utility program to format a HD and copy the existing OS onto it. I have done this many many times and never had any problems. Now, after the HD was formatted as a bootable drive and the OS from the C-Drive was copied onto it I exited out of the utility program and booted up my system. When I went to open the newly formatted drive Windows displayed a message box saying the hard drive is not formatted and would you like to format it now. Thinking I better not until I find out what the problem is i declined from formatting it through Windows. When I clicked on Properties it told me that the HD had 0 data on it. Not knowing exactly what the problem is and why I just left it alone for the time being thinking I will deal with this later because I had to leave for the day. Before leaving I powered down my PC. This morning when I finally rebooted my PC I noticed that the HD was not listed. So, I went into the BIOS and sure enough it too did not see the HD. I then restarted the DOS utility program and there too it did not see the presence of the HD.

Now that this HD cannot be seen by the OS is it a goner? Is there anyway to get it formatted again so that it becomes useable?