Strange Problem With Flash Or Hard Drive

Running windows 7 on a Dell Vistro 400 I am having a little problem cloning or erasing drives.
If I ask Western Digital Data Lifeguard Essentials or several other similar programs to erase a drive
it comes up with " error writing 0-255 " Same thing happens when using HDclone with it always
reporting a write error at the start of the drive and I have had this happen perhaps 20 hard or flash
drives. I have already run Tweaking Computer and 3 different virus scans that can't find any virus.
But when I switch to a different computer I don't have this problem . So any chance it's an odd hard to find
virus ?