DoA

PatZ1989 · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:14

I'm pretty sure this is a dead piece of equipment, but just to throw it out there. bought a brand new hard drive (external - Seagate)

Plug it in via USB, nothing happens. check disk management, volume is there but the disk needs to be initialized before it can be formatted, try and initialize the disk and get the following error;

"The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the DM console, then restart DM or restart the computer"

Restarting all the above changes nothing. same error

Thanks

twist3d0n3 · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:45

got it plugged into a port thats powerful enough for it? i.e. feeding it 5v (front usb headers won't)

PatZ1989 · 7 Jan 2011 at 13:23

Yup, was plugged in directly to PC. interestingly it would like me initialize it if I chose GPT (guid partition table) rather than MBR, after this was working i just took the disk offline and in disk management changed it to MBR, very weird sequence but it seems to be working now. thanks =)

twist3d0n3 · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:28

congratz

i'd have been scratching my head for ages on this

PatZ1989 · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:32

It was very odd, im still keeping the shipping packaging handy. safe to say faith in this drive is shaken