I just bought a Western Digital 3TB Green hard drive. BIOS sees it, but Windows and Knoppix (Linux via USB stick) have trouble seeing it and are unable to effectively access it.
My system:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5Ghz
Asus P8Z77-V motherboard
16GB RAM
2x Nvidia Geforce 660 for SLI
256GB OCZ SSD
Western Digital 1TB Green
Western Digital 3TB Green (1 year old)
Western Digital 3TB Green (1 day old)
My plan was to take out the 1TB drive, put in the second (brand new) 3TB drive and run RAID1 mirroring with the existing 3TB one. As it is physically installed where the 1TB drive was, I know the power and data cables work; I can swap the old one in no problem. At this point, I'm just trying to get the disk recognised and operational, mirroring can come later. The SSD houses the operating system, program installs and such like as you'd expect, and also a few games that I play a lot or have specific need for performance but they mostly go on the 3TB drive.
Windows boots incredibly slowly (approx 20x the amount of time) and the Disk Management tab in Computer Management frequently stops responding. When it does work, it sees the drive correctly and prompts for me to make a partition, but this process stops responding too.
Knoppix can see the drive and 2 partitions (one a few MB, one 3TB-ish). For the other 3TB drive (which has 1 usable partition), it sees 3 partitions (two a few MB, one 3TB-ish). I understand that there are small extra partitions made for system stuff so the extras don't concern me. However, that the new disk only has 2 suggests to me that Windows failed to create one of the system partitions. It fails to mount the main 3TB partition, whereas it can mount and read the old 3TB drive.
Is this drive Dead-On-Arrival, or is there something I should check? I'm rather out of the loop ("Welcome, Quboid. You last visited: 19th Jan 2011 at 20:13" - heh!) so please don't assume anything is too obvious.
My system:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5Ghz
Asus P8Z77-V motherboard
16GB RAM
2x Nvidia Geforce 660 for SLI
256GB OCZ SSD
Western Digital 1TB Green
Western Digital 3TB Green (1 year old)
Western Digital 3TB Green (1 day old)
My plan was to take out the 1TB drive, put in the second (brand new) 3TB drive and run RAID1 mirroring with the existing 3TB one. As it is physically installed where the 1TB drive was, I know the power and data cables work; I can swap the old one in no problem. At this point, I'm just trying to get the disk recognised and operational, mirroring can come later. The SSD houses the operating system, program installs and such like as you'd expect, and also a few games that I play a lot or have specific need for performance but they mostly go on the 3TB drive.
Windows boots incredibly slowly (approx 20x the amount of time) and the Disk Management tab in Computer Management frequently stops responding. When it does work, it sees the drive correctly and prompts for me to make a partition, but this process stops responding too.
Knoppix can see the drive and 2 partitions (one a few MB, one 3TB-ish). For the other 3TB drive (which has 1 usable partition), it sees 3 partitions (two a few MB, one 3TB-ish). I understand that there are small extra partitions made for system stuff so the extras don't concern me. However, that the new disk only has 2 suggests to me that Windows failed to create one of the system partitions. It fails to mount the main 3TB partition, whereas it can mount and read the old 3TB drive.
Is this drive Dead-On-Arrival, or is there something I should check? I'm rather out of the loop ("Welcome, Quboid. You last visited: 19th Jan 2011 at 20:13" - heh!) so please don't assume anything is too obvious.
