DOA Hard Drive?

[Zaptecc]

So this is a bit of an odd issue that I have never seen occur before. It also seems that nobody else has had this problem, as I can't seem to find any info on it on Google. Basically, I ordered an OEM WD Blue 1 TB from Amazon, and it arrived as expected, in a bunch of hard styrofoam to prevent damage to it. It doesn't appear to be physically damaged on the outside anywhere, so it must either be a connection or something in the drive. I was all excited about the new drive, because my old one is clicking waaaay more than a hard drive ever should, so I plugged it in with a SATA cable that was in my motherboard's box. I turned on my computer, and saw the Windows boot logo, and got excited. Terrible mistake. The Windows boot logo would not go away, I was stuck with the infamous infinite boot screen. I headed to YouTube to see what I could find, and all the things I watched told me to go into automatic repair to then either go into cmd and run drive diagnostics or go into safe mode and uninstall a problematic driver. The problem was, even when I cut the power two or three times, it still would not boot! It said, 'Preparing automatic repair,' but it would never go past that either! I knew something weird was happening, so I checked the BIOS. It didn't detect the drive! I tried using a different SATA cable or a different port on the motherboard, but still, the drive would not be recognized! There was one time where I was able to successfully boot into Windows with the drive plugged in, and disk management always gave me the 'cyclic redundancy check' error whenever I tried to do anything with it, but Windows did recognize the drive at that point. I don't know what else to try and my old hard drive is dying in front of me. Thank you for all the suggestions in advance!

 

EDIT: Yes, the hard drive was spinning. I could hear and feel that it was powered on.

[Wander Away]

So you cloned your old drive onto the new one, and removed the old one before doing all this?

[Zaptecc]

2 minutes ago, Wander Away said:

So you cloned your old drive onto the new one, and removed the old one before doing all this?

No, the old drive is still completely empty. I was trying to clone it with this computer, as I don't currently have another way to do it.

[spartaman64]

could be a windows problem not a hard drive one

[Wander Away]

4 minutes ago, lightningdude38 said:

No, the old drive is still completely empty. I was trying to clone it with this computer, as I don't currently have another way to do it.

Wait, if your old drive is empty, what's your intention again?

Or do you mean your new drive is empty?

In which case I don't see any problem with your new drive but your old drive that's dying

[Zaptecc]

1 minute ago, Wander Away said:

Wait, if your old drive is empty, what's your intention again?

Or do you mean your new drive is empty?

In which case I don't see any problem with your new drive but your old drive that's dying

I'm sorry, the new drive is still empty. Whoops. My intentions are to clone the old one onto the new one, then wipe the old one and use it as backup storage until it dies (which is soon)

[Wander Away]

1 minute ago, lightningdude38 said:

I'm sorry, the new drive is still empty. Whoops. My intentions are to clone the old one onto the new one, then wipe the old one and use it as backup storage until it dies (which is soon)

In which case, the problem with not booting into windows would be your old drive having issues. All new drives comes unformatted. In which case I would try using a bootable cloning software like clonezilla to clone your data onto the new one. 

[Zaptecc]

1 minute ago, Wander Away said:

In which case, the problem with not booting into windows would be your old drive having issues. All new drives comes unformatted. In which case I would try using a bootable cloning software like clonezilla to clone your data onto the new one. 

Thanks, I'll try this later today. I'm not surprised if it is the old drive having issues, it's been used in more than 1 computer.

[Zaptecc]

1 hour ago, Wander Away said:

In which case, the problem with not booting into windows would be your old drive having issues. All new drives comes unformatted. In which case I would try using a bootable cloning software like clonezilla to clone your data onto the new one. 

I tried using Clonezilla, and even that would not recognize the new drive. I've tried multipple SATA ports and cables, even using the old drive's cable and port, but it still isn't recognized by anything