Hard drive not working.

[Dubesta11]

Hello, I recently purchased a WD Blue 1TB HDD for a friends build, and its been having a lot of problems. Yesterday when I tried to install windows, it ended up freezing before it could get to the hard drive section. Then when I tried plugging it into my main computer, it doesn't show up in the disk management (but does show up in device manager). It spins like normal, and looks/sounds like it should.

 

So I ended up using an older 500GB WD Green drive to install windows on and it worked fine. I still need it to work, so is there anything else I can try to do to format it before I have to RMA it? Would it be possible to install a linux distro on it to format it (I tried Ubuntu, and that doesn't work either).

 

Thanks!

[mark201200]

RMA it. It's dead

[Dubesta11]

RMA it. It's dead

 

Hm, do you think it would be quicker to order another one (while its on sale) and request a refund?

[Tedster]

RMA it. It's dead

Agreed.

 

 

Hm, do you think it would be quicker to order another one (while its on sale) and request a refund?

Don't you think it could be on sale because it's part of a bad batch?

[Dubesta11]

 

Agreed.

 

 

Don't you think it could be on sale because it's part of a bad batch?

 

 

Well, it wasn't on sale. I just picked it up because I had a good discount if the price was over 100 (25 dollars off).

[CK_WD]

Hey Dubesta11!

 

I'm sorry to hear that but apparently your drive is dead or dying, just as the others noted.

In my opinion, you'd be better off RMA-ing it and not paying for another drive. This is the link for the RMA process:

 

http://wdsupport.wdc.com/rdsfdc.asp?linktype=rmacreate&portaltype=wd&custtype=end&fs=&ss=〈=en

 

Good luck, hope the next drive works great!

 

CK_WD