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Crowbar_XL
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I left something to download overnight and there was a very short power outage. Now when my second HDD (WD Blue 1TB) is pluged in (there was stuff downloading to that one), Windows needs about 10 minutes to boot, and also, few minutes to display icons on the task bar.  I can't even try to format the drive since i'm stuck in forever loading the drop down list if i try to right click it in This PC, also the drive doesnt show its space left underneath its name, like other partitions do.

 

After i disconnect the second hard drive everything works fine. Any suggestions? You think its dead? Do you think the fact that stuff was writing to it when power went out damaged it or was it just power overcharge or whatever you want to call it, electricity system is quite primitive here.

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I left something to download overnight and there was a very short power outage. Now when my second HDD (WD Blue 1TB) is pluged in (there was stuff downloading to that one), Windows needs about 10 minutes to boot, and also, few minutes to display icons on the task bar.  I can't even try to format the drive since i'm stuck in forever loading the drop down list if i try to right click it in This PC, also the drive doesnt show its space left underneath its name, like other partitions do.

 

After i disconnect the second hard drive everything works fine. Any suggestions? You think its dead? Do you think the fact that stuff was writing to it when power went out damaged it or was it just power overcharge or whatever you want to call it, electricity system is quite primitive here.

follow your thread.

 

the heads probably scratched the platter on restart. do a dskchk and see if a defrag might help. at least it will recognize the drive.

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Hey Crowbar_XL,
 
@ is correct. During the power outage the read/write head might have damaged the platter and this prevent the drive from working properly. CHKDSK /r from the CMD might be able to identify such sectors and try to isolate them for the time being. Do have in mind that bad sectors cannot be fixed and if the drive is damaged it should be replaces as it will get more and more damaged over time.
 
I would suggest running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic's quick and extended tests to check the drive's S.M.A.R.T. status and if it not good and the drive is still under warranty to back up your data and RMA the drive. Here's a link to the tool: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=L2ZNIr
 
If you can, do try other cables/ports on your system, try the drive on another system and try connecting it externally with a SATA to USB cable (for 3.5" form factor drives you'd need an additional power cable as they cannot be fully powered from the USB port), docking station or a simple external enclosure and see if and how is the drive recognized and performing. Are there any strange sounds coming from it? Is the drive overheating? 
 
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Thanks for the suggestions both of you, and yes drive is still under warranty, but im not sure i i'll be able to do any of these suggestions because i can barely start windows in the first place if the drive is connected - windows did say something like "repearing drive D: 100%" one time that i did actualy start up.

 

Ive had problems with this HDD few weeks back as well, Steam started going very very slow on it, i moved it to the other drive and it worked fine, then tried formating this one and it would just not do it, though any kind of formater, so ive used WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and it scaned it fine, and somehow later i ended up being able to format it and it worked fine.

 

So in the end i might try to replace it since its still under waranty, i am furious because i keep downloading back my games to (which doesnt really take a bit of time, considering i had almost only 300gb left out of 1000gb) it and then it breaks  :wacko: but i guess if it can be helped hopefull ill get a replacement. Thanks for the help.

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Ok so.. aparently, changing it to other sata port fixed it.. lol, well that solves that i guess :D

 

Changing SATA ports or cables often fixes issues so this is the first thing that you should check after seeing if the drive is properly recognized in Device Manager, Disk Management and BIOS. :) Do try another drive on the old SATA port and see if it has a problem or there's an issue between this drive and the port to get to the bottom of this. :)
 
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