Barracuda 7200.12 problems

Kei

Kei

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Received a 500GB model for xmas and have not been able to get it to work The bios detects the drive as ST_M13FQBL and appears in device manager and disk management as the same with 3.86GB capacity. I get an I/O error when attempting to initialise it.

I've tried a different power connector, a different SATA cable a different port/controller and a different computer and still get the same results. Is there anything else i should try before i open up an RMA for it? (since it came from OCUK, would the RMA be with them or would I need to go to seagate direct)
 
Have you tried creating a partition (the size of the drive) and formatting it in disk management?
 
The disk has to be initialised before you can even attempt to partition & format it. Just wanted to make sure that other people agreed that i had done all i could to make sure that the drive really was DOA
 
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