Help - brand new WD broken/defect?

[Effenbach]

Hi everybody - i just got a brand new WD 1tb blue hdd for christmas. however i have quite a lot of trouble setting it up.

At first i couldnt even install the driver properly (u know - the part where you choose either GPT or MBR) since it kept saying "cyclic redundancy error". I somehow managed to "fix" that by using another sata port on the mobo. However i cant create a partition. It fails with "formatting was not executed".

And says that the drive is 931.39gb RAW instead of NTFS

The drive does show up in windows explorer/my computer , but is not accesible

I´ve even tried to do a slow formatting of the drive -had it stand there for 8 hours - didnt finish.

So i guess the drive might have been damaged during shipping, and there is noway to fix it?

But i dont know ^^ - thats why i hope you could help me

I would really appreciate if you guys could help me

[tt2468]

Sounds like a bad drive.

[Effenbach]

Okay - so ill just have to get a replacement then , right ? ^^