ictdude1

As above its dead, its a Maxtor drive which arent well known for being reliable. You can open it if you want but if its not dead....that will probably kill it as opening a hard drive in a non clean room is never a good idea.

https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/ Nice simple guide on how to do this

If you have the money sure stretch out for an SSD you cant go wrong but for the cost a hard drive will do what you need just fine as long as its 7200 rpm

Yea haha thats plenty to kill a hard drive when its running!

Basically just restart the PC it restarts all the Windows services, you'd be surprised how many times thats fixed similar issues for users where i work

Yea it sounds like there is something massively wrong with that drive!

Ive seen this many times at work, it often is a faulty SSD which is causing the machine to get hung up whilst trying to post

Im guessing you have tried another known working power supply? I have seen in the past that just because a power supply turns on with the paper clip method doesnt mean it works correctly when it has any sort of load on it, its a 50/50 as it could still be a motherboard issue (which it sounds more likely)

Are you running the lastest Bios on your motherboard?

Are these mechanical hard drive's or SSD drives? What is the transfer speed showing as when disk usage is 100%? Are there any disk errors in event viewer?

The fact you can format the drive without an issue tells me that its not a drive issue but more something strange within Windows. I'm going to sound like an absolute standard IT technician when i say this but im guessing this machine has been restarted to restart all the services?

Yea its a good drive for the price but like any hard drive, no matter how good people say it is, it may fail in a week, or a few years, just keep a backup!

If you dont mind erasing the drive do the following: Open CMD as administrator Type the following commands, press enter after each line Diskpart List disk you should now see the drive capacities, (hopefully here it shows as 2TB) now to select that disk type : Select disk X (x being the drive number that shows on screen) Type : clean Once cleaned go into disk management and initialise the disk ( i normally do it as GPT) Then you should be able to right click on it an format is as a new volume. I hope this helps!

Ive recently upgraded to a 3600 and have no problems with it! runs games great!

Definitely dead, even if it did come back which is more than likely won't i wouldn't trust it at all.