I can't get my new WD Blue 4TB hard drive to format. Could it be a bad SATA cable, or is the drive DOA?
>>53848657
try to use diskpart, clean
>>53848657
Isn't there a partition size restriction on Windows 7 or non-UEFI motherboards to be max 2TB?
>>53848657
Yes.
>>53848698
This. Pm'ed you the fix ;)
>>53848685
>this
Google it if you dont know how OP
>>53848686
no, just partition it as gpt
>>53848686
Yes if you run a 32bit windows
>>53848836
You serious? Why would the OS's architecture influence max HDD size? Unless this is hard-limited by Microsoft.
>>53848685
>>53848792
Didn't work.
Long shot but try a live cd to partition it. If it doesn't work, rma
>>53849232
well look at the log m8
>>53849052
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/d6330f00-535d-48fd-8cd0-0be37e84e6f3/how-to-install-and-boot-to-over-2tb-drive-in-windows-7-steps?forum=w7itproinstall
I kinda remembered it more simple
>>53849304
There's 500+ entries of this code
>>53848657
I had the same problem, I tried everything you can think, live cds, programs and such. I solved using the Windows 7 installation disk and doing a clean install, after getting the disk to work I booted with my another HD, got the ownership of everything and deleted.
>>53849676
Your disk is fucked op
>>53849676
RMA it. Bad blocks are bad news and it will fail soon.
>>53849992
>>53850029
I figured as much. Alright, thanks. That's all I wanted to know.
>>53850041
I'm waiting in the mail a similar one, 2TB z series
and now i'm worried, wich pogram have you used to check its integrity?
>>53850293
I couldn't get it to run chkdsk, I just relied on all those block errors to say "yep, this is a bad disk"
>buying WD drives in 2016
cuckd
>>53851094
What would you recommend?
>>53851355
He's an arse. New drives i.e. 2015 have pretty much insignificant differences in first year failure rates. Seagate used to suck at this but has improved. If you want reliability either go with Hitachi or WD Black.
the very first thing you do after buying a drive is boot into the manufacturers tool and run a full sector scan on it.
