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Hello all. Brand new 3TB Seagate Barracuda turned up today. Plugged in, computer turned on, and I hear the hard drive spin up. I then hear the hard drive beep at me. I'm not sure if the thing keeps spinning after this, I can't feel anything but the drive stays warm so I assume it's still spun up.
It then takes about 2-3 minutes to get past the loading screen on startup with the pulsatey windows logo, as opposed to the normal few seconds (my boot drive is an SSD, this is a new storage drive). Once windows finally boots and I head to disk management, it throws up a message about setting up the MFT or the high capacity alternative I forget the name of. Whichever I click, it makes no odds. It thinks for a moment, then throws up the error "Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
Clicking past that error and looking at the disk management screen itself, my 3TB drive shows as a whopping 128GB unallocated. Nothing else.
My diagnosis is that the drive is broken, and that the treatment is a return of the new toy and leaving Seagate alone in the future. More than a decade of WD drives and not one issue. Grr.
If on the other hand this is fixable, do please let me know. The internet has been no help at all. Ta!
It then takes about 2-3 minutes to get past the loading screen on startup with the pulsatey windows logo, as opposed to the normal few seconds (my boot drive is an SSD, this is a new storage drive). Once windows finally boots and I head to disk management, it throws up a message about setting up the MFT or the high capacity alternative I forget the name of. Whichever I click, it makes no odds. It thinks for a moment, then throws up the error "Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
Clicking past that error and looking at the disk management screen itself, my 3TB drive shows as a whopping 128GB unallocated. Nothing else.
My diagnosis is that the drive is broken, and that the treatment is a return of the new toy and leaving Seagate alone in the future. More than a decade of WD drives and not one issue. Grr.
If on the other hand this is fixable, do please let me know. The internet has been no help at all. Ta!
