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I just received my Western Digital Black 2TB HDD from Newegg today and I have spent the past hour trying to use it but it isn't being detected.

 

I tried 3 different sata cables so I know it's not that. I used a USB to Sata cable to try to reformat it and it wasn't even detected that way either.

 

I went to "disk management" and it wasn't detected on there nor was it detected in the BIOS.

 

This is the drive I bought. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624

It's gone. If your BIOS doesn't detect it at all that means that it's dead

 

A little off topic I finished watching shakugan no shana, it's good but not AWESOME!

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I just received my Western Digital Black 2TB HDD from Newegg today and I have spent the past hour trying to use it but it isn't being detected.

 

I tried 3 different sata cables so I know it's not that. I used a USB to Sata cable to try to reformat it and it wasn't even detected that way either.

 

I went to "disk management" and it wasn't detected on there nor was it detected in the BIOS.

 

This is the drive I bought. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624

 

 

 

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Is it detected in your bios?

No.

 

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No.

Try to return it.

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Double check with Disk Management, if it isn't there (will be unpartitioned), then it's not living.

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Could be DoA, or it could be that its not powered? Though I hope that that is not the case.

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Then its dead.

:o No!

 

Sadly I bought this HDD in order to install Titan fall because I have absolutely no more room in my current hdd. I guess I will have to wait a little bit longer. :(

 

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Could be DoA, or it could be that its not powered? Though I hope that that is not the case.

No it is powered I have it connected to the same cable that I have my other hdd and SSD connected to.

 

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No it is powered I have it connected to the same cable that I have my other hdd and SSD connected to.

You've tried every other sata port aswell?

 

 

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You've tried every other sata port aswell?

Yes, I plugged it in to other sata ports and nothing.

 

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I just received my Western Digital Black 2TB HDD from Newegg today and I have spent the past hour trying to use it but it isn't being detected.

 

I tried 3 different sata cables so I know it's not that. I used a USB to Sata cable to try to reformat it and it wasn't even detected that way either.

 

I went to "disk management" and it wasn't detected on there nor was it detected in the BIOS.

 

This is the drive I bought. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624

It's gone. If your BIOS doesn't detect it at all that means that it's dead

 

A little off topic I finished watching shakugan no shana, it's good but not AWESOME!

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It's gone. If your BIOS doesn't detect it at all that means that it's dead

 

A little off topic I finished watching shakugan no shana, it's good but not AWESOME!

I'm going to call Newegg right now to RMA it then. Thanks

 

And Shakugan no Shana is awesome!

 

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Have you tried a different SATA cable as well?

 

 

 Sadly I bought this HDD in order to install Titan fall because I have absolutely no more room in my current hdd. I guess I will have to wait a little bit longer. :(

Protip: build a NAS :)

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Have you tried a different SATA cable as well?

 

 

Protip: build a NAS :)

And just save all my games on there? Will it load my games slower though since i'm essentially streaming my games from the NAS?

 

I was actually planning on purchasing a Synology NAS soon, maybe I will.

 

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And just save all my games on there? Will it load my games slower though since i'm essentially streaming my games from the NAS?

Installing games on a NAS might not be the best idea... It's certainly possible, but loading times will reduce drastically and if the NAS becomes unavailable, registry links to executables become broken. What I meant was that you should put all data on the NAS ;)

 

 

I was actually planning on purchasing a Synology NAS soon, maybe I will.

Cool! I'd still advise you to *build* a NAS ;)

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