Okay here's the situation:
I built my own PC a few months ago and it has been running great, but I have been using (and still am using) an old HDD from an old Dell. It is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 160GB. It works fine, a little noise, but it runs fine. Only problem is it's small. So I bought a 1 TB WD Black off of newegg during some big sale thing. I foolishly thought "I'll just plug it in and it will work." Wrong.
I have it hooked up to the Motherboard and PSU exactly the same as my other HDD. So I assume that isn't the issue.
So I boot up my computer and open Disk Management. Sometimes it is there sometimes it's not. Off to a bad start.
I converted it to a "dynamic disk" at some point, like I read on some obscure forum post. It may or may not still be dynamic.
And not here's the kicker, when I do see the HDD I right click and try to format it. It tries to format. I come back after a few minutes and it says, "unable to format," so I try again this time it is immediately unable to format. I check back to Disk management and Speccy and plot twist it's gone. Then I typically search the internet for a few minutes looking for help when I eventually restart the computer until it shows up again, and the cycle repeats.
I am a caveman. Please help, thank you so much.
I built my own PC a few months ago and it has been running great, but I have been using (and still am using) an old HDD from an old Dell. It is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 160GB. It works fine, a little noise, but it runs fine. Only problem is it's small. So I bought a 1 TB WD Black off of newegg during some big sale thing. I foolishly thought "I'll just plug it in and it will work." Wrong.
I have it hooked up to the Motherboard and PSU exactly the same as my other HDD. So I assume that isn't the issue.
So I boot up my computer and open Disk Management. Sometimes it is there sometimes it's not. Off to a bad start.
I converted it to a "dynamic disk" at some point, like I read on some obscure forum post. It may or may not still be dynamic.
And not here's the kicker, when I do see the HDD I right click and try to format it. It tries to format. I come back after a few minutes and it says, "unable to format," so I try again this time it is immediately unable to format. I check back to Disk management and Speccy and plot twist it's gone. Then I typically search the internet for a few minutes looking for help when I eventually restart the computer until it shows up again, and the cycle repeats.
I am a caveman. Please help, thank you so much.
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