windows 7 doesnt see HD on first boot

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hey, my windows 7 installation doesnt recognise my harddisk at first boot, it just sends me to the BIOS and there i can see theres no HD, i start it up again, now it boots, but freezes at the starting windows screen, after about 3 minutes it gets to the welcome screen, and it takes another 3 minutes to show the desktop, after letting it startup for 30 minutes, i try to startup chrome, this also takes about 3 minutes, chrome loads pages really slow, in about 1 minute. also if i try to start up spotify, it takes about 30 minutes before i can use it, but after about 5 clicks, it freezes and my whole computer doesnt work anymore, i already installed windows 5 times, but it doesnt change a thing. please help :(
 
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Id wipe the drive try maybe"Derricks boot nuke make sure you know what your doing if you do this" format it and try it without adding any updates at first, if you don't get it to work after that your hard drive may have just took a dump, I myself have had a few WDD drives that did the same to me after one week.
 
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hey, i already formatted it about 3 times, i made sure it was totally empty, my whole system is brand new and custom build, except for my power supply, could this be the problem, or do i have to buy a new harddrive? i cant return the harddrive because the store i bought it stopt, its only a webstore now. so, can it be the power supply or the HD?, if its the HD, i will buy a new one, maybe an SSD, is its the power supply, i will buy a new one next week.
 
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Sorry to say but it does sound like its your hard drive, if you have any other drives id say try them just to make sure, didnt change any ram cause its known to cause the same out comes , have you tried any hard drive test programs on it ?
 
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i actually double checked my ram, i even got my whole pc apart and biuld it up again, still same problem.
ill just buy a new harddrive, i checked with an 60gb drive and it worked fine, however, 60gb is not enough for me (Duuh) i had my HD almost full (it was 1TB) so yeah, it sucks... thank you guys for helping me, New hardrive it is!
 
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hold it you didnt say 1 tb omg you need to get drivers for it before using that type of drive....!!!
Ok check it out some systems dont identify that type of drive because of it being newer you have to download the TB drivers in order to make it seen able by the older systems... hope you got this before you went and bought a new one I'll try and find you a link for them tell me all your info on that system,?
 
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wow lol, i wasnt going to buy a new one in a week so dont worry, It's a Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003
The rest of my PC: CPU: AMD A10 5800K GPU: Nvidea GT620 MOBO: Asrock FM2A75 Pro4-M RAM: 8GB
Corsair XMS3 @1600Mhz
 
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wow lol, i wasnt going to buy a new one in a week so dont worry, It's a Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003
The rest of my PC: CPU: AMD A10 5800K GPU: Nvidea GT620 MOBO: Asrock FM2A75 Pro4-M RAM: 8GB
Corsair XMS3 @1600Mhz
 
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Yes even if , some times it takes a bit longer for the system to add up the bits then it may cause that to loose control, Now let me check here but it is one last hope for ya there before you go buy a newer drive...sorry whats your info..?
 
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Did you get a disk with that type of drive for that capacitie..?
 
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well, i didnt get a disk at all, i ordered all my computer parts at once, and the harddrive was just in a plastic bag with nothing else...

o wait i think i maybe got you wrong here, do you mean like a DVD, or what?
 
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Here's what I've found so far Im doing this at work but will be back later and will try finding more during work without them knowing, I have read about a firmware update that is needed for this type of hard drive because of some type of issue about redudancey over run or something like that,, it was sent to me in my tech news letter from another board I'm also on, you can read more here until i come back. ;)
 
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thank you ;) ill check it ou, ill let you know if it did the fix

ooookay, the firmware update is not compatible with this drive.

thats was the .exe, lets try a .iso
 
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i think i must buy a new drive...
 
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WOW WAIT!!!!!!!!

my internet is fast again and the welcome screen doesnt freeze for 3 minutes anymore, only 1 problem left: it still doesnt recognise the drive on first boot, SO, i boot, message: reboot and select proper boot device etc. i re-boot, and it works fine again. might the reboot and select proper boot device etc. part ve another problem?

i want to try to boot again, but i forgot to put the stupid updates off.. now first update and than i will see whats going on right now
 
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